[yellowdog-announce] Terra Soft Launches Bioinformatics Package for Power, x86 Linux: Press Release 14 November 2005

[yellowdog-announce at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com]

TERRA SOFT LAUNCHES Y-BIO, AN RPM-BASED BIOINFORMATICS 
PACKAGE FOR POWER, X86 LINUX

SEATTLE, Washington, - 14 November 2005 - Terra Soft Solutions today launched 
Y-Bio for the growing life sciences market. Built upon the RPM Linux standard 
for package management, Y-Bio offers industry standards NCBI BLAST, EMBOSS, 
Glimmer, ClustalW, HMMER, Wise, and FastA -- tools which help bioinformatics 
researchers conduct genetic sequence analysis.

Terra Soft's Y-Bio web interface enables genomics researchers to benefit from 
unified data input and execution. Y-Bio provides a foundation that enables 
relatively simple inclusion of new applications to the suite.

David Smith, lead developer for the Terra Soft Y-Bio project, states, "We have 
enhanced the power of Pise by building intelligence into the web interface. 
Static web pages have been enhanced with database-driven PHP, enabling Y-Bio 
to couple user data configuration and data security into a seamless 
environment."

Terra Soft's Y-Bio improves upon existing Pise-based offerings as follows:
 - Database-driven PHP.
 - Web-based and command line (shell) interfaces.
 - Secure user environments.
 - RPM compliance with Yellow Dog, Red Hat, and SuSE Linux.
 - Simple installation, update, and package removal via yum and Up2Date.
 - Support for both Power and x86 Linux platforms.
 - Execution on a single computer or large-scale cluster with Torque and MPI 
interoperability.

Built upon Terra Soft's seven years experience with Linux, and expertise in 
providing mission critical systems to the Departments of Energy and Defense, 
Terra Soft has dedicated its engineering team to build this well integrated 
solution, offering:
 - Aesthetic web interface to Pise with 'simple' and 'complex' menus.
 - Database-driven graphical account manager and system configuration 
interfaces.
 - Graphical file manager which moves data from local workstations to a remote 
cluster and enables remote file management.
 - Both GUI and command line interfaces via the same username and password.
 - Support for Terra Soft's 'Y-Imager', enabling pre-defined bio node images 
to be replicated across an entire cluster in a matter of minutes.

Terra Soft is showcasing Y-Bio at SC2005, November 14-18 from IBM booth #1510 
and Mercury booth #1664. Kai Staats, co-founder & CEO will give a 
presentation about Y-Bio at 11AM, Thursday November 18 in the IBM booth 
theater.

Y-Bio is slated to ship the first of January. Licenses begin at $9500. Terra 
Soft is now receiving orders. Interested parties may gain on-line access to 
Terra Soft's 16 CPU G5 / Infiniband trial cluster beginning in December in 
order to test Y-Bio before purchasing.

For more information on Y-Bio, visit:
http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/y-hpc/y-bio/


About Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
Terra Soft is a leading Integrated Solutions Provider with proven expertise in 
the Power Architecture and Linux OS platform. As a Mercury, Apple, and Genesi 
VAR, and IBM Business Partner, Terra Soft provides turnkey and build-to-order 
portables, desktop workstations, HA servers, and HPC clusters. Terra Soft's 
Y-HPC 64-bit OS and cluster construction suite is widely accepted as a 
preferred platform for Xserve clusters. 

For more information, visit www.terrasoftsolutions.com