There are more than a hundred bioinformatics packages provided as part of the standard Debian installation. NEBC Bio-Linux<ref>[{{Cite web |url=http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html |title=NEBC Bio-Linux] |access-date=2005-12-19 |archive-date=2006-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422152024/http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> packages can also be installed on a standard Debian system as long as the bio-linux-base package is also installed. This creates a /usr/local/bioinf directory where our other packages install their software. Debian packages may also work on [[Ubuntu Linux]] or other Debian-derived installations.
