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==Package repositories==
Package repositories are generally specific to the distribution of Linux the bioinformatician is using. A number of Linux variants are prevalent in bioinformatics work. [[Fedora (operating system)|Fedora]] is a freely-distributed version of the commercial [[Red Hat]] system. Red Hat is widely used in the corporate world as they offer commercial support and training packages. Fedora Core is a community supported derivative of Red Hat and is popular amongst those who like Red Hat's system but don't require commercial support. Many users of bioinformatics applications have produced [[RPM Package Manager|RPMs]] (Red Hat's package format) designed to work with Fedora, which you can potentially also install on [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] systems. Other distributions such as [[Mandriva]] and [[SUSE Linux distributions|SUSE]] use RPMs, so these packages may also work on these distributions.
*[http://informatics.umdnj.edu/BioRPMs BioRPMs] (RedHat and Fedora)
*[http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/Groups.html RPMfind.net] (Various RPM-based distributions, indexed by category)
[[Debian]] is another very popular [[Linux distribution]] in use in many academic institutions, and some bioinformaticians have made their own software packages available for this distribution in the [[deb (file format)|deb]] format.
*[http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Debian Med] (Debian contains a lot of medical software internally)
*[http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/repository.html NEBC Bio-Linux] (Non-standard Debian)
Many Linux packages are compatible with [[Mac OS X]] and there are several projects which attempt to make it easy to install selected Linux packages (including bioinformatics software) on a computer running Mac OS X. These include:
*[http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/sections.php Fink scientific packages]
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