Is there freely distributable code of GeneMark available
Hi Mark,
I hope I'm contacting the right person to answer the question of freely
distributable source code of GeneMark.
I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team which is a group inside
Debian with the objective to package free software in the field of
biology and medicine. You can see the packages we just worked on in
the field of biology on our so called tasks list[1].
I intend to package quast[2] which contains a copy of the genemark
executables for different architectures. However, distribute software
inside Debian it is necessary to create binaries from source and thus
simply using these binaries is not possible. That's why I'm wondering
whether you could release the GeneMark code under a free license (GPL,
BSD or something like this) on some public place.
The advantage would be that users of Debian / Ubuntu and its derivatives
systems which are quite frequently used in bioinformatics could easily
install your software. You also get some additional quality assurance
and I can confirm that all authors who decided to open source their
software to enable the Debian Med packaging team were happy about this
step since it contributed to a wider distribution of their software and
a better user response.
Kind regards and thanks for considering or forwarding to the right
persons
Andreas.
[1] http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio
[2] http://bioinf.spbau.ru/quast
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