BioPuppy OS is an electronic workbench for bio-informatics and computational biology.

BioPuppy OS is an electronic workbench for bio-informatics and computational biology. It has been designed to meet the needs of beginners. BioPuppy is available as a live CD cum installation CD [and in USB Pen drive] and containing all the required software to boot the computer with ready to use bio-informatics tools. BioPuppy is based of the Puppy Linux. The another objective of this BioPuppy is small in size. Our estimated size of BioPuppy is ~150MB.

BioPuppy is derived from Puppy-3.01-seamonkey Linux.

Here are some key features of "BioPuppy":

· More user friendly and easy to use for those new to Linux.
· Contains all the necessary Bioinformatics tools. Check the Biology tools already included in BioPuppy.
· BioPuppy will boot from a minimum PC/Laptop with 586Mhz CPU and 32Mb RAM
· Easy to install in Hard disk, USB Pen drive and Compact Flash (CF) cards. No fear on installation for those new to Linux.
· Very small in size (~180MB). But it has everything.
· BioPuppy can run your operating system, programs and store your data on the same CD-RW/Pen drive/Hard disk
· BioPuppy contains extensive help files for ALL its programs and Bioinformatcis tools with screen shot.
· Can easily update new version.
· Bring all your programs, tools, moves, songs with light weight BioPuppy Linux in a single USB Pen drive.
· Every thing is Free/Open Source under the GPL license. You are legally allowed to redistribute it.

Biology softwares included:

· Sequence Analysis Tools : Sim-4, Tigr-Glimmer 2, Genewise, Muscle, Sigma,
· HMMER, Clustal-W, mafft
· Structure Prediction Tools : mfold, gibbs
· Protein Structure Analysis Tools : Garlic, Rasmol
· Phylogenetic Analysis tools : Fast DNA, Phylip, Phylodraw
· Protein Modeling : Modeller,
· Docking : MGL Tools ( Autodock tools, Python Molecular Viewer (PMV), Vision)
· System Biology : Copasi
· On-line tools : BLAST, EMBOSS

Requirements:

· Intel Celeran 233 MHZ Processor
· 128 MB RAM [Recommend 256MB RAM for better performance]
· CDROM 20x