Re: Debtags for medical issues
Enrico Zini wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:08:52AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
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>>>I was a bit surprised that no tags for medical applications exist yet,
>>>when I was tagging[3] the ctn package there was no way to indicate it
>>>was Medical Imaging related or even Medical in general.
>>>Some example tags I could imagine:
>>>field::medicine
>>>field::medicine::imaging
>>>field::medicine::dental
>>>
>>>
>>I append some more:
>> field::medicine::biology (or should wie use field::medicine::microbiology
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There may be problem here. In Andreas' CDD bioinformatics is a subfield
of biology/microbiology. That is fine, so it is all within medicine. The
problem is the distinction between medically motivated activities and
other that are mere of an organisational necessity or biological. Some
bioinformatics reserach is actually done in medical informatics, other
from within genetics laboratories, and yet others from clinical research
institutes. It is a very thin line here. I am not certain if this
distinction should be made on a higher level. And should it be
field::medicine::biology or rather field::biology::medicine? The latter
would make no sense in the way the CDD is currently been set up.
A field::bioinformatics I would not mind to see, a subfield
field::medicine::bioinformatics, either as an alternative to
medicine::biology, would also make sense to me and would cater more
easily to adapt that to the evolving ontologies of bioinformatics tools
and services within the MyGrid.org.uk and BioMoby.org communities. I do
not think that Debian should address this alone. It would help the
Debian distribution to share such software specification with the
respective communities. Andreas, please consider to mention the tags in
Utrecht, as it is a real hot topic, indeed!!
>> field::medicine::genetics
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Programs designed to aid the analysis of biological processes with data
provided through genetic labs
r-cran-qtl - linkage analysis for polygenic diseases
ok, it would also get a tag for bioinformatics.
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>>>But also a tag like:
>>>works-with::dicom
>>>
>>>
>>Definitely.
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>I definitely need a description for this one as well :) What is dicom
>precisely? If dicom is a raster image format used in medicine, how
>about works-with::image:raster:dicom ?
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Dicom comprises standards for the exchange of medical data between
machines. Raster, yes, also.
Many greetings
Steffen
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