Re: Bug#851306: ITP: freebayes -- Bayesian haplotype-based polymorphism discovery and genotyping

[Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>]

On Friday, January 13, 2017 10:00:13 PM Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : freebayes
>   Version         : 1.0.2
>   Upstream Author : Erik Garrison
> * URL             : https://github.com/ekg/freebayes
> * License         : MIT
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : Bayesian haplotype-based polymorphism discovery and
> genotyping FreeBayes is a Bayesian genetic variant detector designed to
> find small polymorphisms, specifically SNPs (single-nucleotide
>  polymorphisms), indels (insertions and deletions), MNPs
>  (multi-nucleotide polymorphisms), and complex events (composite
>  insertion and substitution events) smaller than the length of a
>  short-read sequencing alignment.
> 
> 
> Remark: This package is maintained by the Debian Med team at
>    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/freebayes.git

"freebayes" seems like a very generic name for something specific to such a 
narrow field.  Maybe freebayes-genetic-variance or some such instead.

Scott K