Dear all,
Hi,
This question probably is similar to the question that some scholars have already asked; but they have generally been about the popular distros of researchers. It is noteworthy that I'm now KDE Plasma distro user. We know that bioinformatics has a variety of research areas, and each researcher needs an exclusive distro depending on their field of study to apply proprietary packages. Although Antonia Rana & Fabrizio Foscarini have already mentioned some distros and some points about Bio-Linux, Gentoo Linux, DNALinux, BioSLAX, PhyLIS etc in the link below.
Because any distribution is efficient for a number of reasons including: compatibility with most Bioinformatics packages, constantly updating for LTS stability, what repositories they update and how frequently, which distro is the most appropriate for phylogenetic, molecular ecology, R packages and so on. I'm looking forward to any valuable opinions and suggestions of your expertise personal experiences.
Best,
Saeed
I personally would stay away from niche systems such as bio-linux because the supporting community is much smaller than the community of a mainstream linux distro such as debian, arch, ubuntu etc.. So if something goes wrong and you are looking for help online, chances are you are on your own.
That said, I think most mainstream distros are capable of doing whatever you want since most bioinformatics software offer packages for all major distros or are relatively easy to compile on your own. Therefore, I think the pros and cons are the same you find when looking for a general distro: I personally use debian because I like a stable system. A lot of my coworkers are using ubuntu or arch.
I would also recommend an Ubuntu LTS installation. Most available tools and pipelines work very well with it.
I would go for Debian or Ubuntu LTS.
Most paper I read state something like "this software as tested on Ubuntu ... LTS". Both have a large user base and a large developer base. Debian has the (probably negligible) advantage that 32 bit is still supported.
Dear all,
Hi,
I'm so thankful for your valuable suggestions.
Best regards,
Saeed
Biolinux is just ubuntu with some bioinformatics software preinstalled. Ive never had any issue with bioinformatics work on ubuntu.
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