Re: Bug#611828: ITP: probalign -- multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities
Le Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:33:05AM +0100, Tanguy Ortolo a écrit :
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> Le mercredi 02 février 2011, andreas@an3as.eu a écrit :
> > Description : multiple sequence alignment using partition function posterior probabilities
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> Is that about DNA sequences? I think this should be explicited in the
> description, with something like:
> detect multiple sequence alignment in DNA sequences
Dear Tanguy,
probalign can align DNA and protein sequences. It is a frequent request on this
list to add more information in the synopsis so that readers can know what kind
of sequence is aligned, without any other information like the long
description, Debtags or the package's section. But we only have 80 characters
to for the synopsis…
Here are synopsis for other multiple sequence alignment programs:
boxshade - Pretty-printing of multiple sequence alignments
dialign-tx - Segment-based multiple sequence alignment
dialign - Segment-based multiple sequence alignment
kalign - Global and progressive multiple sequence alignment
mafft - Multiple alignment program for amino acid or nucleotide sequences
mummer - Efficient sequence alignment of full genomes
muscle - Multiple alignment program of protein sequences
poa - Partial Order Alignment for multiple sequence alignment
probcons - PROBabilistic CONSistency-based multiple sequence alignment
proda - multiple alignment of protein sequences
sigma-align - Simple greedy multiple alignment of non-coding DNA sequences
In general, we try to reproduce the upstream short description. This is the
case for probalign.
Unless this is causing significant confusion, like mislead users from other
fields wasting their time installing bioinformatics package, I would recommend
to keep the short description as it is.
Have a nice week-end,
--
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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