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Biosuite

BioSuite is a versatile, comprehensive, portable, scalable software suite, catering to the needs of scientists and academicians and to the bioinformatics industry. Bio-Suite contains computational tools and algorithms covering the areas of Genomics, Protein Modeling and Structural Analysis, Simulations and Drug Design.
(BioSuite: A comprehensive bioinformatics software package (A unique industry–academia collaboration). The NMITLI-BioSuite Team CURRENT SCIENCE, 38 VOL. 92, NO. 1, 10 JANUARY 2007 http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci/jan102007/29.pdf)

This software suite has been developed in such a way that it can be used for genome analysing, sequence analysing, 3D modelling, simulation, manipulation, structural changes, drug design, pathway modelling, SNP analysis and comparative genomics. The suite runs on platforms such as Compaq, IBM Aix, SGI, Linux clusters and the operating systems of Unix and Linux flavours, the official said. The 3D structure manipulations in the module will help in building molecules, side chain placements and stereo chemical editing and the drug design model will help in developing de-novo designs with high throughput screening of chemical databases, the official claimed.

About the Bio-Suite installed at SERC:

Version: Bio-Suite 3.0

Platform : Fedora Core 5

Machines: ibmlx2_13 and ibmlx2_19

The Bio-Suite package, is a computational bioinformatics tool that can be used to obtain insights about biological problems. The package is divided into four main modules: Genomics, Protein modeling and Structural analysis, Simulations and Drug Design. The package also supports a molecular modeling utility: Structure Window and a sequence designing utility: Sequence Window.

 

Configuration Information of Biosuite at SERC

Biosuite is a node-locked software. It is installed on two machines at SERC, namely ibmlx2_13 and ibmlx2_19.

To invoke biosuite:

<prompt>cd /usr/local/BioSuite.V.3.0/bin
then type ./biosuite-3.0 at the prompt

and press enter.

Now you can start using Bio-Suite software.

Contact: Mrs. Nalini Sreeshylan (217) or sysadmins at 109.

For assistance, please contact HelpDesk@SERC by E-mail or phone (#444 within SERC).