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Here we report on the development of an Integrated Bioinformatics Toolkit (InBit) that is application-based software, integrating various bioinformatics programs for general purpose biological data analysis like gene prediction, gene analysis, protein analysis, sequence alignment, etc. InBit will enable the biologists to use the various programs for their research purpose without being bothered with their various technical aspects. It will also help graduate students and those who are newly using bioinformatics tools. Though the individual software that is integrated in InBit are available on the web and are quite user-friendly, they often become difficult to use when the size of the data set becomes quite large. In these cases, it becomes necessary to use standalone versions of many of this software, but this requires some prior knowledge of UNIX operating system. InBit merges the standalone properties of the software in a user-friendly menu-driven environment. It is open-ended UNIX/LINUX based software that can be extended by the user if so desired. Its hardware requirements are also very basic, requiring a optimum of 1GB RAM for efficient performance.