Planning a Debian Med Covid-19 project

[Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller@gmx.de>]

Dear all,

We have multiple aims. Here are mine:

a) do something good
b) show to the world that our infrastructure is usable
c) do something that is not redundant
d) be educational
e) come up with findings that can be reproduced
f) have it all automated, preferably in a way that it can be adapted for
other diseases/symptoms/whatever.

Idea: We do not go for a single paper that we want to reanalyse (would
be redundant at best) but get _all_ RNA-seq raw data on Covid-19. I
thought about  using PiGx-rnaseq (bcbio is not ready) to get us read
counts and the typical gene set enrichment analyses. With that many
samples, we should also have options for downstream analyses for which
earlier efforts possibly lacked the statistical power.

How do you feel about this? Should we prepare a Virtual Sprint for it?

Best,

Steffen