Thoughts on the Vienna RNA package
Hi all,
I had a look at the Vienna package, and here are a few thoughts about
the work to be done.
- It uses a patched version of Readseq. Maybe we should consider to
build Vienna on Debian's readseq, possibly by adopting its patches if
they are not disruptive. By the way, we could incorporate the Debian
package for readseq in our repository, if its current maintainer
agrees.
- The Vienna package provides libraries that other programs use. For
instance, MiRanda, a sofware to discover targets of micro RNAs uses
Vienna's RNAlib.
- Emboss provides some wrappers so we shoud probably package them as
well.
- There are some build issues such as the Makefile in the Kinfold
directory that has no distclean rule. Probably some autoconf mastery
can solve the problem.
- The vienna-rna source package should probably be split into multiple
binary packages, for instance RNAforester which is a distinct work.
- I do not have the impression that some commercial licences are sold,
so maybe we have a chance of obtaining a relicencing ?
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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