title: Open discovery: An integrated live Linux platform of Bioinformatics tools.
abstract: Historically, live linux distributions for Bioinformatics have paved way for portability of Bioinformatics workbench in a platform independent manner. Moreover, most of the existing live Linux distributions limit their usage to sequence analysis and basic molecular visualization programs and are devoid of data persistence. Hence, open discovery - a live linux distribution has been developed with the capability to perform complex tasks like molecular modeling, docking and molecular dynamics in a swift manner. Furthermore, it is also equipped with complete sequence analysis environment and is capable of running windows executable programs in Linux environment. Open discovery portrays the advanced customizable configuration of fedora, with data persistency accessible via USB drive or DVD.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The Open Discovery is distributed free under Academic Free License (AFL) and can be downloaded from http://www.OpenDiscovery.org.in.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences, SRM University, Ramapuram, Chennai, India. vumashankar@gmail.com
authors.forename: Umashankar
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Vetrivel
authors.forename: Kalabharath
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pilla