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New BioBuilds Website and Updated Library

Nov 20, 2014

Lab7 Systems as launched a new website for the BioBuilds project and released a expanded version of the BioBuilds library.

BioBuilds is a curated and versioned reference collection of open source bioinformatics tools. In addition to several new tools, this version of BioBuilds is optimized for the IBM Power Systems platform enabling scientists to operate IBM hardware with existing informatics binaries. The freely available resource also supports multiple linux-based operating systems, Intel x86 platforms, as well as Mac OS X.

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