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 Various bio applications running on BioSLAX | |
| Developer | National University of Singapore BioInformatics Center (Resource) Mark De Silva Lim Kuan Siong Tan Tin Wee |
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| OS family | Unix-like: Linux |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Open source |
| Latest release | v 7.5 / February 5, 2009 |
| Platforms | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Kernel type | Monolithic |
| License | Various |
| Official website | www |
BioSLAX is a Live CD, Live DVD, and Live USB operating system (OS) comprising a suite of more than 300 bioinformatics tools and application suites. It has been released by the Bioinformatics Resource Unit of the Life Sciences Institute (LSI), National University of Singapore (NUS) and is bootable from any PC that allows a CD/DVD or Universal Serial Bus (USB) boot option and runs the compressed Slackware flavour of the Linux OS, also known as Slax. Slax was created by Tomáš Matějíček in the Czech Republic using the Linux Live Scripts which he also developed. The BioSLAX derivative was created by Mark De Silva, Lim Kuan Siong, and Tan Tin Wee.
BioSLAX was first released to the NUS Life Science Curriculum in April 2006.