Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section
Linas Žvirblis <0x0007@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have only located a single medicine-related application, but there are
> more in other sections. The whole bunch of gnumed-* packages is a good
> example.
That may be a general problem (or feature). I have none installed, but
I guess there might be a couple of medical imaging programs: Should
they be in Science, or graphics, or even viewers? One would have to
look at them in detail.
> I added another section named "Analysis", that contains general data
> analysis/plotting/calculation applications.
If we get this, it should be named "Data Analysis", since "Analysis" is
also a subtopic of Mathematics. But I'm not sure it's a good idea:
> Analysis [10]
> dx - OpenDX (IBM Visualization Data Explorer) - main package
> fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data analysis
> g3data - extract data from scanned graphs
> imview - Image viewing and analysis application
> ygraph - Visualize one-dimensional scientific data
> kboincspy - monitoring utility for the BOINC client
> kst-bin - A KDE application used for displaying scientific data
> mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and histograms
> paje.app - generic visualization tool (Gantt chart and more)
> qtdmm - GUI for digital multimeter
You didn't put everything there that contains "analysis" in its name -
probably you took only "general purpose" things. Hm.
Currently, grace(6), which you forgot, is in math. I think that there
is no clear border between spreadsheet calculators (Openoffice Calc,
gnumeric, ...), which can do a little data fitting and plotting, and
full-featured data fitting and plotting programs (fityk, mn-fit,grace),
which often can do less data manipulation, but still some.
qtdmm looks like it should be in electronics. kboincspy is probably
less scientific than a performance monitor - after all it's the central
server who does the serious evaluation of the data that the distributed
clients calculated.
dx has a bad description; I can't tell whether it's a competitor to
grace/fityk/Origin/... or not.
No suggestions in the paragraphs above, just questions.
> I find them very similar to
> what is found in "Math", so I consider moving "Mathematics" to "Science"
> a good idea.
No, I don't think so. Others gave the arguments already.
> libncbi6-dev - NCBI libraries for biology applications (development files)
Uups, this one has a menu entry?
> Biology [16]
> garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules
[...]
> rasmol - Visualize biological macromolecules
[...]
> Chemistry [11]
[...]
> pymol - An OpenGL Molecular Graphics System written in Python
Pymol is heavily used for visualising biomolecules, just as
old-fashioned rasmol. I don't think we should separate these.
> viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry programs.
> xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems
> xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular systems
These I cannot categorize, but they seem to be similar.
> Physics [5]
> gdpc - visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations
And this is also very near - MD simulations are based on physics, but
are performed to answer chemical or, I guess more frequently,
macromolecular=biological questions.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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