DOCSLIB.ORG

Análisis Comparativo Entre Open Office Y Microsoft Office

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Análisis Comparativo Entre Open Office Y Microsoft Office Instituto Tecnológico de Villahermosa Aplicación del Saber: Villahermosa, Tabasco, México Casos y Experiencias Vol. 2 Copyright Academia Journals 2016 marzo de 2016 Análisis comparativo entre Open Office y Microsoft Office Gómez Flores Ana Wendy1, Castro Hidalgo July Paulina2, Castro Argüello José Rodolfo3, Escalante Mendoza Kevin Daniel4, Dearcia Altúzar Marin5, Méndez Calvo Luis Armin6 Resumen- Microsoft es una suite ofimática que abarca el mercado completo en internet e interrelaciona aplicaciones de escritorio, servidores y servicios para los diversos sistemas operativos y por otro lado Apache Open Office es una suite informática libre que incluye herramientas como procesadores de texto, hoja de cálculo, presentaciones, herramientas de dibujo y base de datos, el objetivo de la presente investigación es determinar qué software entre el Open Office y Microsoft Office es mejor desde sus características y en la opinión de la comunidad tecnológica de Comitán para posteriormente analizar los resultados y dar a conocer cuál es el software que beneficia más de acuerdo a las necesidades que se realizan. Palabras clave- Open Office, Microsoft Office, características, aplicaciones, software. Introducción Microsoft Office es una suite ofimática que abarca el mercado completo en Internet e interrelaciona aplicaciones de escritorio, servidores y servicios para los sistemas operativos Microsoft Windows y Mac OS X. Microsoft Office fue lanzado por Microsoft en 1989 para Macintosh, más tarde seguido por una versión para Windows, en 1990. La primera versión de Office contenía Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel y Microsoft PowerPoint. Además, una versión "Pro" (profesional) incluía Microsoft Access y Schedule Plus. Con el tiempo, las aplicaciones han crecido sustancialmente y de forma más estrecha con características compartidas, como un corrector ortográfico común, la integración de datos OLE y el lenguaje de secuencias de comandos de Microsoft, Visual Basic para aplicaciones. Microsoft también posiciona Office como una plataforma de desarrollo para software de línea de negocios, bajo la marca de Office Business Applications (aplicaciones empresariales de Office u OBA por sus siglas en inglés). La suite usó desde 1997 hasta 2003 un grupo de formatos conocido como 97-2003 o 98-2004. En los años 2007 y 2010, con la introducción de Office 2007 y Office 2010, se creó un nuevo grupo de formatos denominados Office Open XML (docx, xlsx, pptx), los cuales se mantienen en las más recientes versiones de la suite, Office 2013 y Office 2011 para Mac. De acuerdo con Forrester Research, hasta junio de 2009 las diferentes versiones eran usadas por más del 80% de las empresas alrededor del mundo. Un análisis afirmó que las versiones de Office 2007/Office 2010 ocupaban entonces el 80% de las instalaciones. Apache OpenOffice es una suite ofimática libre (código abierto y distribución gratuita) que incluye herramientas como procesador de textos, hoja de cálculo, presentaciones, herramientas para el dibujo vectorial y base de datos. Está disponible para varias plataformas, tales como Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris y Mac OS X. Soporta numerosos formatos de archivo, incluyendo como predeterminado el formato estándar ISO/IEC Open Document (ODF), entre otros formatos comunes, así como también soporta más de 110 idiomas, desde febrero del año 2010. Apache OpenOffice desciende de OpenOffice.org, un proyecto que tiene como base inicial a StarOffice, una suite ofimática desarrollada por StarDivision y adquirida por Sun Microsystems en agosto de 1999. El desarrollo de la suite estaba liderado por Oracle Corporation (inicialmente por Sun Microsystems), en colaboración con otras compañías como Novell, RedHat, RedFlag CH2000, IBM, Google, entre otras hasta junio de 2011. El código fuente de la aplicación está disponible bajo la Licencia pública general limitada de GNU (LGPL). ‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾‾ 1Gómez Flores Ana Wendy Maestra en Comercio Electrónico impartiendo materias dentro del depto. de Sistemas y Computación del Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán. [email protected] 2Castro Hidalgo July Paulina estudiante de Ingeniería De Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán, Comitán, Chiapas [email protected] 3Castro Argüello José Rodolfo estudiante de Ingeniería De Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán, Comitán, Chiapas [email protected] 4Escalante Mendoza Kevin Daniel estudiante de Ingeniería De Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán, Comitán, Chiapas [email protected] 5Dearcia Altúzar Marin estudiante de Ingeniería De Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán, Comitán, Chiapas [email protected] 6 Méndez Calvo Luis Armin estudiante de Ingeniería De Sistemas Computacionales en el Instituto Tecnológico de Comitán, Comitán, Chiapas [email protected] Libro Digital 1276 ISBN 978-1-939982-20-9 Instituto Tecnológico de Villahermosa Aplicación del Saber: Villahermosa, Tabasco, México Casos y Experiencias Vol. 2 Copyright Academia Journals 2016 marzo de 2016 Descripción del Método Este trabajo fue impulsado por la búsqueda de una solución al problema de elección entre el uso de software libre y comercial en el ámbito de ofimática de acuerdo a las necesidades de uso en estudiantes de nuestra comunidad tecnológica, ya que al ser elegir un software comercial como lo es Microsoft Office nos veremos obligados a comprar una licencia de uso del programa o a alterar al software de forma ilegal para que este sea útil, cosa que requiere cierto nivel de conocimiento en los usuarios y además de ser como ya dijimos, ilegal, nos puede generar problemas de activación del programa quedando así inutilizable. En cuanto a desempeño de hardware como es de esperar, las tareas más intensivas se ejecutan mejor con chips rápidos, más memoria RAM o unidades de disco duro veloces, y un hardware más reciente que agiliza las tareas cotidianas cosa que no todos como usuarios promedio poseen haciendo que eso afecte en la experiencia de uso al usuario, por otra parte al usar software libre como lo es LibreOffice no tendremos que preocuparnos por este aspecto ya que este tipo de software ha sido diseñado para trabajar con computadoras de pocos recursos técnicos, ya que es más estable cuando se ejecuta generando una carga más ligera al sistema con el cual se está trabajando comparada con el software comercial y en cuanto a licencias de activación no tendremos que preocuparnos por este aspecto ya que al ser un software libre, es gratis, pero algunas de las funciones que están el software comercial no están presentes en esta y eso limita la funcionalidad de este producto además de la imposibilidad de conservar el formato de trabajo de un documento al guardarlo o transferirlo a un tipo de archivo que sea capaz de ser abierto en el software comercial, ya que si hacemos esto nuestro trabajo o documento perderá el orden original en el que estaba y esto nos dificultará nuestras labores. Determinar que software (OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office) es mejor en cuanto a sus características como son vulnerabilidad, herramientas, compatibilidad con archivos, diseño, seguridad, popularidad y en la opinión de la comunidad del tecnológico de Comitán para posteriormente analizar los resultados y en cuanto a eso se determine que software le beneficia de acuerdo a sus necesidades. La figura 1, muestra la estructura utilizada para recolectar la información. Figura 1. Pirámide de impacto y desarrollo de proyecto. En la Tabla 1 se concentra el análisis de la información que se obtuvo desde las características antes mencionadas. Microsoft Office Open Office Vulnerabilidad Múltiples vulnerabilidades han sido descubiertas en Podría ser explotado para ejecutar código Microsoft Office que podría permitir la ejecución arbitrario o para la protección de autenticación remota de código. de derivación. Una explotación exitosa de estas vulnerabilidades Vulnerabilidades de ejecución de código remoto podría dar lugar a un atacante obtener los mismos son particularmente populares entre los piratas Libro Digital 1277 ISBN 978-1-939982-20-9 Instituto Tecnológico de Villahermosa Aplicación del Saber: Villahermosa, Tabasco, México Casos y Experiencias Vol. 2 Copyright Academia Journals 2016 marzo de 2016 privilegios que el usuario conectado. Dependiendo de informáticos ya que los usuarios pueden los privilegios asociados con el usuario, un atacante dirigirse por correo electrónico a conseguir que podría instalar programas; ver, cambiar o eliminar se abra un documento malicioso, que puede datos; o crear cuentas nuevas con todos los derechos explotar la vulnerabilidad. de usuario. Índice de explotabilidad La vulnerabilidad (con CVE-2015-1774) afecta Vulnerabilidad en la carga de bibliotecas no a documentos HWP, y está causada por un seguras en los componentes de Office - desbordamiento de búfer en el tratamiento del CVE-2011-1980 filtro HWP. Este problema podría permitir Código de explotación consistente. realizar denegaciones de servicio y lograr Vulnerabilidad de puntero de objeto no ejecutar código arbitrario a través de inicializado en Office - CVE-2011-1982 documentos HWP especialmente manipulados. Código de explotación consistente. Se ven afectadas todas las versiones de Existe una vulnerabilidad de ejecución OpenOffice remota de código en la forma en que Microsoft Office trata la carga de
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Istls Information Services to Life Science Internet Bioinformatics Resources Josef Maier [E-Mail: [email protected]] Last Checked August, 17Th, 2011
    IStLS Information Services to Life Science Internet Bioinformatics Resources Josef Maier [e-mail: [email protected]] Last checked August, 17th, 2011 IStLS Bioinformatics Resources http://www.istls.de/bioinfolinks.php Courses and lectures Bioinformatics - Online Courses and Tutorials http://www.bioinformatik.de/cgi-bin/browse/Catalog/Research_and_Education/Online_Courses_and_Tutorials/ EMBRACE Network of Excellence http://www.embracegrid.info/page.php EMBNet Quick Guides http://www.embnet.org/node/64 EMBNet Courses http://www.embnet.org/ Sequence Analysis with distributed Resources http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/sadr/ Tutorial Protein Structures (EXPASY) SwissModel http://swissmodel.expasy.org/course/course-index.htm CMBI Courses for protein structure http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/teach/courses/index.html 2Can Support Portal - Bioinformatics educational resource http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can Bioconductor Workshops http://www.bioconductor.org/workshops/ CBS Bioinformatics Courses http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/courses.php The European School In Bioinformatics (Biosapiens) http://www.biosapiens.info/page.php?page=esb Institutes Centers Networks Bioinformatics Institutes Germany WSI Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik - Universitaet Tuebingen http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/faculties/faculty-of-science/departments/computer-science/department.html WSI Huson - Algorithms in Bioinformatics http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/welcome.html WSI Prof. Zell - Computer Architecture http://www.ra.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/ WSI Kohlbacher - Div. for Simulation
    [Show full text]
  • Debian Med Integrated Software Environment for All Medical Applications
    Debian Med Integrated software environment for all medical applications Andreas Tille 27. February 2013 When people hear for the first time the term ‘Debian Med’ there are usually two kinds of misconceptions. Let us dispel these in advance, so as to clarify subsequent discussion of the project. People familiar with Debian as a large distribution of Free Software usually imag- ine Debian Med to be some kind of customised derivative of Debian tailored for use in a medical environment. Astonishingly, the idea that such customisation can be done entirely within Debian itself is not well known and the technical term Debian Pure Blend seems to be sufficiently unknown outside of the Debian milieu that many people fail to appreciate the concept correctly. There are no separate repositories like Personal Package Archives (PPA) as introduced by Ubuntu for additional software not belong- ing to the official distribution or something like that – a Debian Pure Blend (as the term ’pure’ implies) is Debian itself and if you have received Debian you have full De- bian Med at your disposal. There are other Blends inside Debian like Debian Science, Debian Edu, Debian GIS and others. People working in the health care professions sometimes acquire another miscon- ception about Debian Med, namely that Debian Med is some kind of software primarily dedicated to managing a doctor’s practice. Sometimes people even assume that people assume the Debian Med team actually develops this software. However, the truth about the Debian Med team is that we are a group of Debian developers hard at work incor- porating existing medical software right into the Debian distribution.
    [Show full text]
  • Impacting the Bioscience Progress by Backporting Software for Bio-Linux
    Impacting the bioscience progress by backporting software for Bio-Linux Sasa Paporovic [email protected] v0.9 What is Bio-Linux and what is it good for - also its drawbacks: If someone says to use or to have a Linux this is correct as like it is imprecise. It does not exist a Linux as full functional operating system by itself. What was originally meant by the term Linux was the operating system core[1]. The so called kernel, or in a case of a Linux operating system the Linux kernel. It is originally designed and programmed by Linus Torvalds, who is also today the developer in chef or to say it with his words, he is the “alpha-male” of all developers[2]. Anyway, what we have today are Distributions[3]. It has become common to call them simply “a Linux”. This means that there are organizations out there, mostly private, some funded and some other commercial, which gather all what is needed to design around the Linux kernel a full functional operating system. This targets mostly Software, but also web and service infrastructure. Some of them have a history that is nearly as long as the Linux kernel is alive, like Debian. Some others are younger like Ubuntu and some more others are very young, like Bio-Linux[4]. The last Linux, the Bio-Linux, especially its latest version Bio-Linux 7 we are focusing here[5]. In year 2006 Bio-Linux with the work of Tim Booth[42] and team gives its rising[6] and provide an operating system that was and still specialized in providing a bioinformatic specific software environment for the working needs in this corner of bioscience.
    [Show full text]
  • Operating Systems: from Every Palm to the Entire Cosmos in the 21St Century Lifestyle 5
    55 pages including cover Knowledge Digest for IT Community Volume No. 40 | Issue No. 11 | February 2017 ` 50/- Operating ISSN 0970-647X ISSN Systems COVER STORY Computer Operating Systems: From every palm to the entire cosmos in the 21st Century Lifestyle 5 TECHNICAL TRENDS SECURITY CORNER Cyber Threat Analysis with Blockchain : A Disruptive Innovation 9 Memory Forensics 17 www.csi-india.org research FRONT ARTICLE Customized Linux Distributions for Top Ten Alternative Operating Bioinformatics Applications 14 Systems You Should Try Out 20 CSI CALENDAR 2016-17 Sanjay Mohapatra, Vice President, CSI & Chairman, Conf. Committee, Email: [email protected] Date Event Details & Contact Information MARCH INDIACOM 2017, Organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New 01-03, 2017 Delhi http://bvicam.ac.in/indiacom/ Contact : Prof. M. N. Hoda, [email protected], [email protected], Tel.: 011-25275055 0 3-04, 2017 I International Conference on Smart Computing and Informatics (SCI -2017), venue : Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology & Sciences Sangivalasa, Bheemunipatnam (Mandal), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, http://anits.edu.in/ sci2017/, Contact: Prof. Suresh Chandra Satapathy. Mob.: 9000249712 04, 2017 Trends & Innovations for Next Generation ICT (TINICT) - International Summit-2017 Website digit organized by Hyderabad Chapter http://csihyderabad.org/Contact 040-24306345, 9490751639 Email id [email protected] ; [email protected] 24-25, 2017 First International Conference on “Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017)” at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Contact: [email protected]; (M) 94754 13463 / (O) 033 24205209 International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics (CICBA - 2017) at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India.
    [Show full text]
  • COLLABORATIVE COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES for BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry Sean Ekins , Series Editor
    COLLABORATIVE COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH Wiley Series on Technologies for the Pharmaceutical Industry Sean Ekins , Series Editor Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Ren é e J.G. Arnold (ACT LLC, USA) Dr. David D. Christ (SNC Partners LLC, USA) Dr. Michael J. Curtis (Rayne Institute, St Thomas ’ Hospital, UK) Dr. James H. Harwood (Delphi BioMedical Consultants, USA) Dr. Maggie A.Z. Hupcey (PA Consulting, USA) Dr. Dale Johnson (Emiliem, USA) Prof. Tsuguchika Kaminuma, (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan) Dr. Mark Murcko, (Vertex, USA) Dr. Peter W. Swaan (University of Maryland, USA) Dr. Ana Szarfman (FDA, USA) Dr. David Wild (Indiana University, USA) Computational Toxicology: Risk Assessment for Pharmaceutical and Environmental Chemicals Edited by Sean Ekins Pharmaceutical Applications of Raman Spectroscopy Edited by Slobodan Š a š i c´ Pathway Analysis for Drug Discovery: Computational Infrastructure and Applications Edited by Anton Yuryev Drug Effi cacy, Safety, and Biologics Discovery: Enmerging Technologies and Tools Edited by Sean Ekins and Jinghai J. Xu The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics Barry Robson and O.K. Baek Pharmaceutical Data Mining: Applications for Drug Discovery Edited by Konstantin V. Balakin The Agile Approach to Adaptive Research: Optimizing Effi ciency in Clinical Development Michael J. Rosenberg Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Project Management in a Changing Global Environment Scott D. Babler COLLABORATIVE COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR
    [Show full text]
  • Bioinformatics I - Basic Tools and Resources 28.07.2009
    Bioinformatics I - Basic Tools and Resources 28.07.2009 Courses and lectures Bioinformatics - Online Courses and Tutorials http://www.bioinformatik.de/cgi-bin/browse/Catalog/Research_and_Education/Online_Courses_and_Tutorials/ The European School In Bioinformatics (Biosapiens) http://www.biosapiens.info/page.php?page=esb 9th Biosapiens European School in Bioinformatics 2009 Brussels Belgium http://www.bigre.ulb.ac.be/9esb VSNS Biocomputing Division http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/ EMBNet Quick Guides http://www.embnet.org/node/64 EMBNet Courses http://education.embnet.org/ EMBNet Biocomputing Tutorials - Introduction http://www.ba.cnr.it/Embnetut/Universl/embnettu.html Sequence Analysis with distributed Resources http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/sadr/ BioComputing Hypertext Coursebook http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/bcd/Curric/welcome.html Tutorial Protein Structures (EXPASY) SwissModel http://swissmodel.expasy.org/course/course-index.htm CMBI Courses for protein structure http://swift.cmbi.ru.nl/teach/courses/index.html Nycomed Chair for Applied Computer Science - Data Mining (Berthold) http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/arbeitsgruppen/bioml/lehre/ 2Can Support Portal - Bioinformatics educational resource http://www.ebi.ac.uk/2can Bioconductor Workshops http://www.bioconductor.org/workshops/ CBS Bioinformatics Courses http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/courses.php Organizations Conferences Bioinformatik.de http://www.bioinformatik.de Bioinformatics.Org - The Open-Access Institute http://bioinformatics.org/ EMBNet Bioinformatics
    [Show full text]
  • Community-Driven Computational Biology with Debian Linux
    Möller et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11(Suppl 12):S5 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/11/S12/S5 PROCEEDINGS Open Access Community-driven computational biology with Debian Linux Steffen Möller1,2*, Hajo Nils Krabbenhöft2,3, Andreas Tille2, David Paleino2,4, Alan Williams5, Katy Wolstencroft5, Carole Goble5, Richard Holland6, Dominique Belhachemi2,7, Charles Plessy2,8 From The 11th Annual Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) 2010 Boston, MA, USA. 9-10 July 2010 Abstract Background: The Open Source movement and its technologies are popular in the bioinformatics community because they provide freely available tools and resources for research. In order to feed the steady demand for updates on software and associated data, a service infrastructure is required for sharing and providing these tools to heterogeneous computing environments. Results: The Debian Med initiative provides ready and coherent software packages for medical informatics and bioinformatics. These packages can be used together in Taverna workflows via the UseCase plugin to manage execution on local or remote machines. If such packages are available in cloud computing environments, the underlying hardware and the analysis pipelines can be shared along with the software. Conclusions: Debian Med closes the gap between developers and users. It provides a simple method for offering new releases of software and data resources, thus provisioning a local infrastructure for computational biology. For geographically distributed teams it can ensure they are working on the same versions of tools, in the same conditions. This contributes to the world-wide networking of researchers. Background the huge potential for combining these tools for analysis The field of bioinformatics has gained momentum over is traded off for the technical complexity.
    [Show full text]
  • Development and Evaluation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures for Next-Generation Sequence Data Analysis
    Development and Evaluation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures for Next-Generation Sequence Data Analysis by Vivekananda Sarangi BTech in Bioinformatics, May 2010, D.Y Patil University, India A Thesis submitted to The Faculty of The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science August 31, 2012 Thesis directed by Konstantinos Krampis Assistant Professor of Informatics, J. Craig Venter Institute Acknowledgement I am heartily thankful to my supervisor, Dr Konstantinos Krampis, whose encouragement, guidance and support from the initial to the final level enabled me to develop an understanding of the subject. His guidance helped me in all time of research, experiments and writing of this thesis. I could not have imagined having a better advisor and mentor for my thesis project. It was a really good learning experience working under him. My sincere thanks go to Dr Raja Mazumder for his precious advice throughout my Master’s program at the George Washington University and helping me to take the right decisions at the right time. I would like to thank Dr Jack Vanderhoek for making my journey through the Master’s program so smooth and fruitful. I would also like to my friends and colleagues at The George Washington University and J. Craig Venter institute for making the working environment filled with positivity and for their support. Last but not the least I would like to thank my family for raising me and supporting me in every aspect of my life. All my credit goes to them.
    [Show full text]
  • 19Th Coordinators Meet
    The Biotechnology Information System Network in India PROCEEDINGS OF THE XXTH ANNUAL COORDINATORS’ MEETING FOCAL THEME: ONLINE RESOURCES IN BIOINFORMATICS February 03-04, 2009 Bioinformatics Centre North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 793 022 Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Science and Technology Government of India The Biotechnology Information System Network in India Proceedings of the XXth All India BTISnet Coordinators’ Meeting February 03-04, 2009 Venue Bioinformatics Centre North-Eastern Hill University Shillong 793 022 Department of Biotechnology Ministry of Sience and Technology Government of India Venue: Multi Use Convention Centre, NEHU North Eastern Hill University, Shillong Date: 3rd & 4th February 2009 PROGRAMME TUESDAY 03th FEBRURARY 2009 09:00-9:30 hrs Registration: 9:30-10:32 hrs Inaugural Session: 9:30 Arrival of the Chief Guest 9:30-9:32 National Anthem 9:32-9:35 Presentation of Bouquet 9:35-9:40 Welcome : Prof. Pramod Tandon, Vice Chancellor, NEHU 9:40-9:50 About BTISNet Programme & Brief Report of Activities during 2008-’09 : Dr. T. Madhan Mohan, Advisor, DBT, New Delhi 9:50-10:05 Keynote Address : Prof M. Vijayan, Chairman, Task Force 10:05-10:25 Inaugural Address by the Chief Guest : His Excellency, The Governor of Meghalaya, Shri. R.S. Mooshahary 10:25-10:30 Vote of Thanks : Prof. Veena Tandon, Deputy Coordinator, Bioinformatics Centre, NEHU, Shillong 10:30-10:32 National Anthem 10:32-11:00 hrs Tea Break Session I 11:00-13:30 hrs Online Resources in Bioinformatics Chair : Prof. M. Vijayan, IISc, Bangalore Rappoteur : Dr. Gulshan Wadhwa, PSO, DBT Speakers (10 Minutes each) 1.
    [Show full text]
  • Introduction to Linux
    Introduction to Linux Dr. George Magklaras Research Computing Services By way of Introduction By way of Introduction (2) ● Abel supercomputer: Initially number 96 in the Top500 list ● 10000 + cores ● 258 Teraflops/sec max. Theoretical peak performance ● 40 TebiBytes of RAM ● 400 TebiBytes of FhGFS filesystem Agenda ● History of Linux ● Why should I choose Linux? ● What is Linux made of (components, choices) ● How you can interact with/use a Linux system? ● The shell and command line interface ● Basic command line skills History of Linux Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman History of Linux (2) Courtesy of unix.org History of Linux (3) ● UNIX originated as a research project at AT&T Bell Labs in 1969 by Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. ● The first multiuser and multitasking Operating System in the world. ● Developed in several different versions for various hardware platforms (Sun Sparc, Power PC, Motorola, HP RISC Processors). ● In 1991, a student at the University of Helsinki (Linus Torvalds) created a UNIX-like system to run on the Intel 386 processor. Intel had already started dominating the PC market, but UNIX was nearly absent from the initial processor Intel market. Why should I choose Linux? ● Best price/performance ratio ● Reliable ● User friendly ● Ubiquitous (from your mobile phone to a supercomputer) ● Scientific software is developed mostly in Linux today. What is Linux made of? Linux distributions ● Often referred to as 'distros'. ● The Linux kernel with a set of programs/applications (text editors, compilers, office suites, web browsers, etc) that make the system usable. ● Slackware was one of the first Linux distributions. ● Debian, RedHat (Fedora, RHEL) and Canonical (Ubuntu) are some of the most popular ones today.
    [Show full text]
  • Information Theory, Graph Theory and Bayesian Statistics Based Improved and Robust Methods in Genome Assembly
    INFORMATION THEORY, GRAPH THEORY AND BAYESIAN STATISTICS BASED IMPROVED AND ROBUST METHODS IN GENOME ASSEMBLY A Dissertation by BILAL WAJID Submitted to the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies of Texas A&M University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Chair of Committee, Erchin Serpedin Co-Chair of Committee, Hazem Nounou Committee Members, Aydin Karsilayan Byung Jun Yoon Mohamed Nounou Head of Department, Miroslav Begovic August 2015 Major Subject: Electrical Engineering Copyright 2015 Bilal Wajid ABSTRACT Bioinformatics skills required for genome sequencing often represent a significant hurdle for many researchers working in computational biology. This dissertation highlights the significance of genome assembly as a research area, focuses on its need to remain accurate, provides details about the characteristics of the raw data, ex- amines some key metrics, emphasizes some tools and outlines the whole pipeline for next-generation sequencing. Currently, a major effort is being put towards the as- sembly of the genomes of all living organisms. Given the importance of comparative genome assembly, herein dissertation, the principle of Minimum Description Length (MDL) and its two variants, the Two-Part MDL and Sophisticated MDL, are ex- plored in identifying the optimal reference sequence for genome assembly. Thereafter, a Modular Approach to Reference Assisted Genome Assembly Pipeline, referred to as MARAGAP, is developed. MARAGAP uses the principle of Minimum Description Length (MDL) to determine the optimal reference sequence for the assembly. The optimal reference sequence is used as a template to infer inversions, insertions, dele- tions and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) in the target genome.
    [Show full text]
  • From Famine to Feast
    COMMENTARY Open software for biologists: from famine to feast Dawn Field, Bela Tiwari, Tim Booth, Stewart Houten, Dan Swan, Nicolas Bertrand & Milo Thurston Developing and deploying specialized computing systems for specific research communities is achievable, cost effective and has wide-ranging benefits. very research scientist who depends daily which is facing an exponentially increasing del- systems, software and their hardware indepen- Eon computers to store, manipulate and uge of data, these attributes are not only desir- dence that is now transforming the accessibility http://www.nature.com/naturebiotechnology analyze data wants to arrive at work to a able but increasingly essential. In particular, and affordability of such systems. smoothly working computer system. Anything the advent of ‘omic technologies (genomics, less than an up-to-date, complete and bug- transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics) From famine to feast free system can steal precious time away from is presenting biologists and bioinformaticians FOSS software lends itself well to distribu- research. Equally, the top priority of dedicated with the challenge of devising solutions for bet- tion and modification and is supported by computing support services is to provide such ter and faster synthesis of raw data into scien- an active development community. It is also systems. tific knowledge. an economical and powerful way of accessing The qualities of an ideal computing plat- Building and delivering tailored computing some of the best computing solutions avail- form are, of course, in the eyes of the beholder. solutions can require significant expertise, is able1. A driving force of the FOSS revolution Important attributes include speed, stability, often dependent on dedicated staff and hard- is Linux.
    [Show full text]