VigyaanCD: Bio/Chemical Modeling Workbench on PC

Posted by michael on Friday April 16, 2004 @07:16AM from the scientist's-toolchest dept.

PKA writes "Announcing the release of VigyaanCD (homepage, mirror1, mirror2). Vigyaan, a Knoppix customization, is an electronic workbench for computational biology and computational chemistry. The user can choose from more than 20 science applications. In addition to bioinformatics software, it provides GROMACS, TINKER for biomolecular modeling and Ghemical, MPQC, PSI3 for quantum chemistry calculations. VigyaanCD is a live Linux CD containing all the software required to boot the PC into workbench environment and is suitable both for beginners (12 demos and tutorials) and experts. Learning computational biology/chemistry has never been easier, so grab the free ISO image from several mirrors around the world and put your PC to work."

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Attention Slashdot: by Neil+Blender · 2004-04-16 07:48 · Score: 5, Insightful

Learning computational biology/chemistry has never been easier,

This may give you a limited working knowledge, but only formal education and real professional experience will provide you the depth of knowledge to become a competent bioinformatics programmer (or chem or physics or whatever.) Learning computational biology is not easy. People with formal education in biology can become ok to decent programmers. But it very rarely works the other way around. I have worked in life sciences for 15 years, the last 5 in bioinformatics and I have seen it time and again.