Re: Intent to package: molecular biology programs
On Saturday 29 August 1998, at 19 h 28, the keyboard of Tyson Dowd
<trd@cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> If they *are* user executables, they need to be separated. A common
> technique for doing this is to create a shell script named after the
> package, which executes the correct command (which lives in
> /usr/lib/packagename)
Wichert Akkerman objected it would violate the FHS and FSSTD?
> Unfortunately, biology is falling into the trap of making genomic
> information proprietary (and incredibly, genomic information taken
> from nature may be made proprietary) so it might be difficult for
> anyone to use such programs simply because there are no suitable
> data-sets.
Many researchers apparently use small, local, data sets, so even a
program like Blast (for those who are not in Biology, it's a
genome-oriented grep) could be useful.
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