Welcome to SB.OS - Systems Biology Operational Software

SB.OS is a live DVD based on Ubuntu Linux that comes with a comprehensive list of Systems Biology Software. Text and video documentation material, as well as an offline copy of the BioModels.net database, are included.

You will find a screenshot here.

You can download an image file of the current SB.OS DVD here.

You can run SB.OS on your computer without having to install anything. To create a bootable DVD just burn the disk image with your favourite burning software to a DVD. To create a bootable USB stick use UNetbootin together with our disk image. All you have to do now is to change the boot device of your computer to first boot from your DVD drive (this is the default on most computers) or to USB. Insert the DVD/USB stick and boot your computer.
If you use the Live DVD/USB you can access and change all files on your harddisk (even if you are using Windows). Please make sure that you do not make any changes to your current operating system.

You can install SB.OS permanently on your computer: to do so, follow the instructions while SB.OS is booting. If you are going to install SB.OS beside an existing operating system, we recommend to prepare security backups of all critical data, even though the installer can resize partitions. You'll need at least 7 GB for the SB.OS, but be not to sparingly - we recommend around 30 GB for the system and your data.

If you have a running ubuntu, you can also install the SB.OS Software. We suggest 2 possible ways:

1) manual (change maverick to the name of your release, e.g. lucid or natty)

Open a terminal and type

sudo -i
wget -q http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/sbos/key.asc -O - | apt-key add -
echo "deb http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/sbos/ maverick main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbos.list
aptitude update ; aptitude install sb.os-desktop

The first line will import the gpg key of the SB.OS repository, the second line creates the file sbos.list in the directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with informations about the SB.OS repository. The last line will update your package sources and install the 'full' SB.OS desktop. You may wish to only install some of our packages, in this case type 'sudo aptitude install $NAME_OF_APPLICATION.

2) graphical (change maverick to the name of your release, e.g. lucid or natty)

Open 'Software sources' from the Adminitration Menu, go to 'Other Software' and click on 'add' type 'http://jaguar.biologie.hu-berlin.de/sbos/ maverick main' into the field and klick on 'add software source' klick on the 'close'- button and say 'yes', if you are asked for reload the software sources. Now you can install the sb.os-desktop (or single packages) via the synaptics package manager.

We are happy about all contributions. Please use this wiki page to make yourself heard. You are allowed to edit the contribute section and to add Systems Biology links to our link collection.

Alternatively, you can directly contact us by email:
* wolfram.liebermeister AT biologie.hu-berlin.de
* falko.krause AT biologie.hu-berlin.de