Re: Debian for Systems Biology
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:24:09 +0900
Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> wrote:
> But I think that the real problem is that most academic software is
> non-free, as it often mentions "Do not make money with our work, or
> share it with us". Thus splitting debian-med would result in
> dilluting sparse packages into something not really useful.
That's likely true. It's also true that things are slowly
changing... and we can run in that direction ;-)
> Then, why don't we try to gather more packages related to
> computational biology, and when a critical mass is reached, we could
> discuss with Andreas and the debian-med people to ask if a renaming
> of the project into something like debian-biomed would make sense?
I told about software that often concerns mathematics and biochemistry
etc. more than medicine, does make it sense that all what's
biology-related become part of debian-med/bio-med, included e.g.
industrial biotech? Well, it perhaps make some sense until the mass of
free software in these fields doesn't exceed one threshold...
So, anyway, I'm ready to contribute to gather packages and
packageable software related to computational biology, biophysics,
bioinformatics, systems biology etc.
Why don't we create a very simple wiki page?
> I can help for testing or translating packages (a surprisingly big
> number of computational biologists are very uncomfortable with
> english). If there is a lot of packaging to do, well, you would have
> to teach me...
and me too! I can help in the same things, And I'll try soon to make
some unofficial packages.
Charles, if you would to contact me you can see below ;-)
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