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Debian packages in the university of Waterloo, Canada



>> I just discovered the bio-linux website, which provides a lot of
>> up-to-date binary packages for the i386 arch. Does any of you knows the
>> team behind ?
>> 
>> http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux/dists/unstable/bio-linux/binary-i386/ 
>
> Thanks for the hint.  About two years ago I wrote an e-mail to these
> people asking for cooperation but got no answer (I would remember of).
> Feel free to ask again.  If they do not answer this is no real harm.
> We might profit by looking at their code that might simplify our
> packaging work.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Andreas.

Hi all,

interestingly, they just published a correspondance in Nature about
public repositories. I have contacted them in private and will let you
know the outcome.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v439/n7079/full/439912a.html

In my search for packages already made, I found another repository, in
the university of Waterloo, Canada. Same question : do you know them ?

https://www.bioinformatics.uwaterloo.ca/wiki/index.php?refs=Local%20Debian%20Repository

I will contact them next week. They have at least one package of a GPLed
program which is not available elswhere (LAGAN). The closeness or their
repository makes sense as it also contains proprierary software, and
open-source-but-do-not-make-money software (for instance, BLAT).

Hope that the next mails will be for good news,

-- 
Charles



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