Re: Roadmap to Lenny: news release draft.
Le Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:38:00PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
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> As not everybody has write access to the website, please any of the
> readers do not hesitate to make suggestions. I intend to :
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> - Write a summary of the novelties of Debian Med 1.0.
Dear all,
I attached to this mail a draft of a news article that we could release
the same day as Lenny. I impatiently wait for your improvements :)
Have a nice day,
--
Charles
<p>
We are proud to announce the release of Debian Med 1.0 together with the new
stable version of the Debian operating system, "Lenny".
</p>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/";>Debian-Med</a> project
continues its exponential growth and again doubled the number of packages it
<a
href="http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org";>maintains</a>.
In addition, the already existing packages were reviewed and updated. Our
current work is concentrated in our three main areas of activity: imaging,
bioinformatics, and medical practice. During this release cycle, we
developped new dynamic web pages to present the content of our meta-packages,
organised in <q><a
href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/";>tasks</a></q>.
</p>
<h2>Medical imaging</h2>
<p>
Many new packages were made for programs supporting the <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM";>DICOM</a> and Nifti formats, that
are important standards in the field of medical imaging: <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/aeskulap";>Aeskulap</a>, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/amide";>AMIDE</a>, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/dicomnifti";>dinifti</a>, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/fslview";>FSLview</a>, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/imagej";>ImageJ</a>, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/python-nifti";>PyNIfTi</a>. Thanks to a patch
allowing the use of MySQL 5, we could continue to distribute <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/ctn";>CTN</a> in Lenny. <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/ctsim";>CTSIM</a>, which depends on an old
version of the WxWidgets library, will not be part of the release, but it
will nevertheless stay part of Debian in the unstable section. Once upgraded
to a more recent version of WxWidgets, the Debian Med project will prepare an
official <a href="http://backports.org";>backport</a>.
</p>
<p>
You can find all the programs for medical imaging in our
<a
href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/imaging.html";><code>med-imaging</code></a>
package.
</p>
<h2>Sequence analysis and bioinformatics</h2>
<p>
This release saw the arrival in Debian of <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/emboss";>EMBOSS</a>, a very
comprehensive suite of software for sequence analysis, with one of its web
interfaces, <a href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/emboss-explorer";>EMBOSS
Explorer</a>, that you can use locally, on your intranet or on the Internet
after an installation as simple as typing <q><code>aptitude install
emboss-explorer</code></q>.
</p>
<p>
Debian Med now distributes all the major free programs for multiple sequence
alignment. One of them, <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/t-coffee";>T-Coffee</a>, can function as
a meta-aligner (<q>M-Coffee</q>), that runs multiple programs and combines
their outputs in a higher-quality alignment. Its author kindly developped a
version that only depends on free software, <q>DM-Coffee</q>, in which <a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/clustalw";>Clustal W</a> is substituted
by <a href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/kalign";>Kalign</a>.
</p>
<p>
You can find all the programs for sequence analysis and bioinformatics in our
<a
href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio.html";><code>med-bio</code></a>
package.
</p>
<h2>Diversification of the medical packages.</h2>
<p>
Debian Med covers a broad area relevant to medecine, with for instance
software for helping people to take care of their health and body (<a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/pondus";>Pondus</a>), software to study
the spread of epidemic diseases (<a
href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/epigrass";>Epigrass</a>), and programs
for organizing the professionnal work of medical doctors
(<a href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gnumed-client";>GNUMed</a>). The
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnumed-server";>GNUMed
server</a> is not yet available as a stable Debian package, but can be found
in our experimental section for those who would like to help by testing.
</p>
<p>
You can find all the programs for health and medecine in our
<a href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/practice.html";><code>med-practice</code></a>,
<a href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/epi.html";><code>med-epi</code></a>, and
<a href="http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/tools.html";><code>med-tools</code></a>
packages.
</p>
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