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Poseidon Linux 3.x – The Scientific GNU/Linux option<br />

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Figure 1. Map from the South Brazilian coast (Ferreira et al. 2005).<br />

Figure 2. 3D model from Rhamdia quelen Growth Hormone (two disulfide bonds in detail) performed - from modeling<br />

to drawing - under Poseidon Linux.<br />

Conclusions and Remarks<br />

The philosophy behind Poseidon Linux is<br />

the same as mainstream science: free access to new<br />

technologies and the freedom to exchange<br />

knowledge between scientists and the general public.<br />

This allows people from developed to developing<br />

countries to have the same access to high quality<br />

scientific software.<br />

Born out of a local effort (in Brazil), to<br />

initiate and encourage the use of high quality free<br />

software for academic and scientific purposes,<br />

Poseidon Linux has evolved and gone far beyond the<br />

original aims of the project. Even when there was<br />

only a single Portuguese language website, it scored<br />

Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences (2009), 4(3): I-VI

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