Re: Some suggestions for the homepage
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:38:15PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some possible improvements in "Molecular Biology and Medical Genetics":
[...]
> Homepage is http://homepages.uni-tuebingen.de/beitz/tse.html, there
> is also "TeXtopo": Plotting of shaded membrane protein topology data.
> No
> package is available yet.
>
> - Garlic does have a homepage:
> http://garlic.mefos.hr/garlic/index.html,
> I just submitted a bug to the BTS about this
Both transmembrane topology presenters do have TOPO as part of Matt
Hope's EMBOSS packages from bioinformatics.debian.net as a functional
alternative. Garlic is unique in its presentation of beta-sheet outer
membrane proteins of pathogens, though, which is a point. However, they
have a web interface and hence the urge to include it with the main
distribution is not too eminent, in my point of view.
Both would be nice to have, though imho we'd tend to drive
towards a list of all possible Bioinformatics packages if we cater too
much for completeness of packages rather than a completeness of
functionality. If we could increase the number of developers for
Bioinformatics, then this would be less of an issue.
> - I would find it useful if the (upstream) development status of the
> projects was indicated. For a starter, rasmol is no longer developed
> (has been superseded by a Windows-only application).
I agree that the exceptional status of superseeded applications should
be explicitly stated in the description. However, this does not speak
against utilities like Rasmol, really, which (who knows better than
you) is scripted from many tools and is kind of a classic. I still think
that Rasmol is something a novice should make the aquaintance with,
otherwise one should consider to remove it from the distribution.
How would you think about entries from Debian Med to ITPs or RFPs?
I just added an ITP to MUSCLE, a sequence alignment program, it is
on the rise and should be added. http://www.drive5.com/muscle/
Maybe an [RT]TP is a good hurdle to overcome for an inclusion with the
home page as the suggestion is associated with a name besides Tobias and
Andreas filtering these.
Many greetings
Steffen
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