There are several other softwares
Eland: http://illumina.ucr.edu/illumina_docs/Velvet:http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~zerbino/velvet/Maq (Mapping and Assembly with Quality): http://maq.sourceforge.net/maq-man.shtmlSOAP alignment tool:...
R package SPP for chip-seq analysis. It can read quite a few aligner's output file. Here is the original package tutorial. http://compbio.med.harvard.edu/Supplements/ChIP-seq/tutorial.htmlHere is my version of the...
Hi Radha,
Go for Linux. It's the first citizen for every C, C++, Python, Perl and Ruby Pipeline.
As for the Linux distribution, Try Gentto ( http://www.gentoo.org/ ) for best perfomance or BioLinux ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioLinux ) for...