removing tophat from Debian
Hi, all,
Given the statement from the website [1]
> Please note that TopHat has entered a low maintenance, low support
> stage as it is now largely superseded by HISAT2 which provides the
> same core functionality (i.e. spliced alignment of RNA-Seq reads),
> in a more accurate and much more efficient way.
and a statement from one of its co-authors [2]
> Please stop using Tophat. Cole and I developed the
> method in *2008*. It was greatly improved in TopHat2 then HISAT
> & HISAT2. There is no reason to use it anymore. I have been
> saying this for years yet it has more citations this year than last
I think we'd be doing users a favor by removing it from the archive. If
in the future anyone wants to replicate old results based on tophat,
they could build a container off of snapshot.debian.org.
Are there any objections?
regards
Afif
1. https://ccb.jhu.edu/software/tophat/index.shtml
2. https://twitter.com/lpachter/status/937055346987712512
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