DocumentCode
2155925
Title
BioFOSS: a survey of Free/Open Source Software in Bioinformatic
Author
Shabaga, Kirby ; German, Daniel M.
Author_Institution
Victoria Univ., BC
fYear
0
fDate
0-0 0
Firstpage
861
Lastpage
866
Abstract
This paper discusses the current state of free/open source software (F/OSS) projects in the field of academic bioinformatics. The paper reports on a survey of the bioinformatics journal that enumerates the number of Application Notes published between volumes 2004-20-17 and 2005-21-7. The purpose of this survey is to determine what percentage of bioinformatics applications are made available under open source licenses. Bioinformatics includes tools, databases, and organizations to support them. An overview is given for the EMBOSS project, the Open Bioinformatics Foundation, and GenBank. In addition, a short discussion of Linux distributions tailored to the needs of bioinformaticians is provided
Keywords
Linux; medical computing; medical information systems; Linux distributions; bioinformatics; open source software; Application software; Bioinformatics; Biology computing; DNA; Genomics; Humans; Licenses; Linux; Open source software; Proteins;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer-Based Medical Systems, 2006. CBMS 2006. 19th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location
Salt Lake City, UT
ISSN
1063-7125
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2517-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CBMS.2006.60
Filename
1647678
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