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Re: Please do Screenshots (GinkgoCADx, GNUmed?, BioInformatics program)



Hi Andreas,

On 07/31/2011 06:57 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:

> before I'll blog a report about the Debian Med BOF @ DebConf (probably
> not before Tuesday when I'm back home) I would like to call for your
> help.  I had lunch with a journalist which was hopefully interesting
> enough for him.  He finally asked me for screenshots of some relevant
> packages.  If you ask me we should care for the following:
> 
>    1. GNUmed: There are some at screenshots.debian.net - please make
>       sure they are up to date and show GNUmed as it should be
>       represented.
> 
>    2. GinkgoCADx: YOu can not (yet) upload it to screenshots.debian.net
>       because it seems to be a manual inclusion process and it has not
>       yet done.  However, you can prepare such an upload by doing the
>       screenshot now and send it to me.

Maybe Karsten and Sebastian can help?

>    3. The journalist finally raised his eyebrows and said: "This is
>       really interesting." when I told him that the biological
>       software finally can be used to detect EHEC strains and said
>       "This is really important."  Please if anybody can do this, can
>       you prepare a screenshot of a program dealing with investigation
>       in EHEC?

This may be a missunderstanding from my blog entries. Open Source
bioinformatics can do all that. But we are not there, yet. I'd
love to be there, though, which is what I am  aiming at for 2012:
complete medically relevant workflows that can be run by a
non-bioinformatics IT student at the medical professional's side.
This means a wiki page with screenshots to follow and/or Taverna+Galaxy
implementing such protocols. This is also why I am so much after
Jalview getting in - it blocks Taverna :)

EHEC could/should indeed be a start. It was the start for my thinking
about it :) More interesting than EHEC (the last patient was release
a day or two ago) is the bug coming next. For such emergencies there should
be an infrastructure readily available for everyone to compare the local
wet-lab expertise with what is special in our creepy animal. I cannot
prove it, but it seems plausible to me that there is no automatism
for a cure. And Open Source technologies widely available to inspect
the previously unseen, i.e. a direct interface to Crowd Intelligence,
may be something we just want since there is no time to waste.

Best,

Steffen


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