Re: Staden Package and trev, its sequence viewer.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 12:09:56PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote :
>
> I don't know Staden, but if two people are thus engaged it might mean
> something. Prehaps we should set it higher in priority than EMBOSS.
> (I admit I'm alittle bit depressed about the silence of Matt Hope
> to all my requests of the status of the EMBOSS package. It does not
> help at all if there are non maintained inofficial packages laying
> around "anywhere". I would love to have this situation fixed, but
> if there is more interest in Staden it might reasonable to set
> preferences here.)
Dear Andreas,
EMBOSS, is a set of unix-style general commands, and Staden is more
oriented towards the analyis of raw sequences, and provides a GUI. I
think that both are very important. If I had to prioritise, I would
simply chose the one requiring the least work.
Both packages are open-source alternatives to non-free software. EMBOSS
replaces GCG [1], which is costly and closed, and Staden can sometimes
substitute for consed [2], which is free for academics and expensive for
the others.
[1] http://www.accelrys.com/products/gcg/
[2] http://www.codoncode.com/
Importantly, as consed is sold to non-academics, the 'free for
academics' version has no chances to be packageable in non-free or to be
relisenced.
Some part of Staden is also present in Fink (unfortunately, it is a
library only).
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/iolib
can it be easily ported to Debian ?
Best,
--
Charles
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