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Thu, 08/19/2010 - 15:01 — vsaadmin

We offer solution design, installation, configuration, annual or quarterly support and related services for a fee for Ubuntu Linux.
VSA Services is listed on the Canonical Marketplace for Ubuntu Service providers in Asia region (http://webapps.ubuntu.com/marketplace/asia/)

Ubuntu Linux is Free Software. Available from http://www.ubuntu.com/ and various mirror servers around the world. Ubuntu Linux is built on the well proven foundation of Debian GNU/Linux.

The major strengths of Ubuntu Linux are:

  • Certified by IBM for DB2 database
  • Available pre-installed on select Dell laptops and desktops (US and Europe)
  • Large community with resources such as wiki's , forums, HOWTO documents etc
  • Commercial grade support from Canonical and many Canonical partners and independent IT services providers.
  • Packages derived from Debian GNU/Linux and enhanced to be easy to install and use
  • Fast local mirror hosted by NUS (National University of Singapore) and Linux Users Group, Singapore

Ubuntu Linux can be used for practically any purpose including:

  • Desktop, Laptop OS
  • Servers : Web, file, print, Application hosting, mail, DNS etc.
  • Clusters: HA as well as HPC
  • Thin Client (LTSP), No Machine NX hosting etc

A large selection of free Scientific Applications are available from Ubuntu repositories which can be installed with just one command or a few clicks of mouse (No more compiling, editing makefiles etc)
Applications available on Ubuntu OS:

  • avida-base - Auto-adaptive genetic system for Artificial Life research
  • biomode - [Biology] An Emacs mode to edit genetic data
  • bioperl - Perl tools for computational molecular biology
  • boxshade - [Biology] Pretty-printing of multiple sequence alignments
  • fastdnaml - [Biology] Tool for construction of phylogenetic trees of DNA sequences
  • fastlink - [Biology] A faster version of pedigree programs of Linkage
  • gromacs-mpich - Molecular dynamics sim, binaries for MPICH parallelization
  • leksbot - An explanatory dictionary of botanic and biological terms
  • libbio-ruby - bioruby tools for computational molecular biology
  • loki - [Biology] MCMC linkage analysis on general pedigrees
  • mcl - the Markov Cluster algorithm
  • med-bio - Debian-Med micro-biology packages
  • mipe - [Biology] Tools to store PCR-derived data
  • muscle - [Biology] multiple alignment program of protein sequences
  • ncbi-epcr - [Biology] Tool to test a DNA sequence for the presence of sequence tagged sites
  • ncbi-tools-bin - NCBI libraries for biology applications (text-based utilities)
  • ncbi-tools-x11 - NCBI libraries for biology applications (X-based utilities)
  • njplot - [Biology] A tree drawing program
  • perlprimer - [Biology] graphical design of primers for PCR
  • primer3 - [Biology] Tool to design flanking oligo nucleotides for DNA amplification
  • python-biopython - Python library for bioinformatics
  • readseq - [Biology] Conversion between sequence formats
  • t-coffee - [Biology] Multiple Sequence Alignment
  • textopo - [Biology] LaTeX presentation of topology of transmembrane proteins
  • tigr-glimmer - [Biology] Gene detection in archea and bacteria
  • tree-ppuzzle - [Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees by maximum likelihood
  • tree-puzzle - [Biology] Reconstruction of phylogenetic trees by maximum likelihood
  • clustalw - [Biology] Global multiple nucleotide or peptide sequence alignment
  • clustalw-mpi - [Biology] MPI-distributed global sequence alignment with ClustalW
  • clustalx - [Biology] GUI for clustalw
  • molphy - [Biology] Program Package for MOLecular PHYlogenetics
  • phylip - [Biology] A package of programs for inferring phylogenies
  • seaview - [Biology] Multiple sequence alignment editor
  • treetool - [Biology] An interactive tool for displaying trees
  • kalzium - chemistry teaching tool for KDE
  • bodr - The Blue Obelisk Data Repository
  • easychem - Draw high-quality molecules and 2D chemical formulas
  • education-chemistry - DebianEdu chemistry related applications
  • garlic-doc - [Chemistry] a molecular visualization program - documents
  • gchempaint - 2D chemical structures editor for the GNOME2 desktop
  • gcu-bin - GNOME chemistry utils (applications)
  • ghemical - A GNOME molecular modelling environment
  • libchemistry-elements-perl - Perl extension for working with Chemical Elements
  • libgcu0 - GNOME chemistry utils (library)
  • libmopac7-0 - Semi-empirical Quantum Chemistry Library
  • libpolyxmass10 - Mass spectrometry library - runtime files
  • libsc7 - The Scientific Computing Toolkit
  • mpqc - The Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program
  • polyxmass-bin - Mass spectrometry framework - GUI program
  • psi3 - Quantum Chemical Program Suite
  • texlive-chemistry - TeX Live: Chemical typesetting
  • texlive-publishers - TeX Live: Support for publishers
  • units-filter - Parser for expressions concerning physical values
  • viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs.
  • geant321 - [Physics] Particle detector description and simulation tool
  • med-physics - Debian-Med packages for medical physicists
  • montecarlo-base - [Physics] Common files for Cernlib Monte Carlo libraries
  • mpb - MIT Photonic-Bands
  • mpb-mpi - MIT Photonic-Bands, parallel (mpich) version
  • paw - Physics Analysis Workstation - a graphical analysis program
  • paw++ - Physics Analysis Workstation (Lesstif-enhanced version)
  • libalps-bin - ALPS Physics Simulation Algorithms (library support programs)
  • Scientific and HPC tools and libraries:
  • mpich-bin - MPI parallel computing system implementation
  • mpich-mpd-bin - MPI parallel computing system implementation, MPD version
  • mpich-shmem-bin - MPI parallel computing system implementation, SHMEM version
  • mpichpython - MPI-enhanced Python interpreter (MPICH based version)
  • openmpi-bin - high performance message passing library
  • netpipe-mpich - A network performance tool using MPICH MPI
  • blacs1-mpich - Basic Linear Algebra Comm. Subprograms - Shared libs. for MPICH
  • scalapack1-mpich - Scalable Linear Algebra Package - Shared libs. for MPICH

Some of the useful resources related to Ubuntu Linux are listed below: