Re: [SPAM?]: Bug#361418: [Proposal] new Debian menu structure
Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:
>> NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information
>> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Think about the Google for biological
>> research.
>>
>> My reasonning was that if people install the packages ncbi-tools-*, they
>> necessarly know what the NCBI is. These packages are not part of complex
>> dependancies networks:
>
> I don't think we should use organisation name for section. Sections are
> supposed to relate to the function of the software. So maybe there is
> a common function theses entries uniquely perform. In the negative I
> would just let them in Science.
The common function is "Tools to explore NCBI databases". I really
don't see any sensible name for a manu subsection for NCBI tools that
does not contain "NCBI". The scope is rather broad:
,----
| What does NCBI do?
|
| Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology
| information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in
| computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome
| data, and disseminates biomedical information -
`----
So even a "Molecular Biology" subsection might be too narrow, depending
on how you understand the term (Structural Biology?). But in a
"Molecular Biology" section we have again the problem that all the NCBI
menu entries would clutter the menu and hide interesting other programs.
I also do not think that it is a problem if we use NCBI and this term is
not understood by users on multi-purpose-installations. They can just
ignore it, maybe after a short look into the submenu. Just as you have
to learn to ignore lots of other things that are irrelevant to your
field of science.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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