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Hello,

Laszlo et al have a paper on PredictProtein in the Cloud with Debian
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2013/398968/
and I (strongly biased towards it, admittedly) would miss it. As long
as pp-popularity-contest is not executed upon startup, which I recall
it is not, I personally do not mind the calling home. Actually, I think
we should also have our regular popularity-contest package shipping with it.

The main problem that I see is that we have no guide on how to use
PredictProtein with Debian. At least I am not aware of it. This may
also bump our distro's adoption a bit more, I tend to think.

Many greetings

Steffen


> Gesendet: Montag, 22. September 2014 um 08:45 Uhr
> Von: "Charles Plessy" <plessy@debian.org>
> An: debian-med@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Contents of the med-cloud package.
>
> Dear all,
> 
> with the Release approaching, it is time to finalise our metapackages.
> 
> I went through the list of packages maintained by the Debian Med packaging team
> and added to the “cloud” task anything that looked useful at the command line
> or in scripts, and that does not pull a whole desktop or high-level graphical
> system (GNOME, KDE, etc.).
> 
> The goal is to have a meta-package that hopefully pulls no more than a gigabyte
> of packages in addition to Debian's “standard” task, and that can be proposed
> as a general-purpose machine image for interactive and scripted analysis of
> biological data, especially high-throughput sequences.
> 
> Needless to say, there must be things that I neglected, especially outside my
> field (transcriptome analysis).  One thing I left on the side was the packages
> that depend on pp-popularity-contest, since my feeling is that a machine image
> that “calls home” would be unwelcome.  I think that we need to find a better
> solution.
> 
> There is another task, “ngs” that would have such a strong overlap with the
> “cloud” task that I propose to drop it.  If the name “cloud” is too confusing,
> let's change it, but as far as “next-generation-sequencing” is concerned, I
> think that a few more hundred megabytes of space taken by other programs
> (phylogeny, structural biology, etc), is not a problem given that the scale of
> the data analysed is orders of magnitude higher, and that it is not difficult
> to start a machine instance with comfortable amount of free space.
> 
> Please review the “cloud” task, comment, and suggest additions or removals.
> 
> Have a nice day,
> 
> Charles
> 
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> http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
> Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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