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arXiv2013

Impacting the bioscience progress by backporting software for Bio-Linux

In year 2006 Bio-Linux with the work of Tim Booth and team gives its rising and provide an operating system that was and still specialized in providing a bioinformatic specific software environment for the working needs in this corner of bioscience. It is shown that Bio-Linux is affected by a 2 year release cycle and with this the final releases of Bio-Linux will not have the latest bioinformatic software on board. The paper shows how to get around this huge time gap and bring new software for Bio-Linux on board through a process that is called backporting. A summary of within the work to this paper just backported bioinformatic tools is given. A describtion of a workflow for continuously integration of the newest bioinformatic tools gives an outlook to further concrete planned developments and the influence of speeding up scientific progress.

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arXiv2013

Realized collaboration across borders - Linux and the bioinformatic part

In year 2006 Biolinux inter alia with the work of Tim Booth gives its rise and provide an operating system that was and is specialized in providing an environment for the needs of bioinformatics. Since than some years have been seen and the information about Biolinux has not only widespread within the bio-science community, also the Linux community at whole had a ear for it. This has caused a process called collaboration across borders and makes as the keywords say the different work groups cooperating together. In this paper we will have a look into the history of this collaboration, will show its growth until we reach the actual state and we will talk about the quo vadis of this process.

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