Bug#724280: ITP: rtax -- Rapid and accurate taxonomic classification of short paired-end sequence reads from the 16S ribosomal RNA gene

[Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org>]

Hi Simon, 

some nitpicking:

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:56:03AM +0200, Simon Kainz wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Simon Kainz <simon@familiekainz.at>
> 
> * Package name    : rtax
>   Version         :  0.983
>   Upstream Author : David A. W. Soergel <David A. W. Soergel>
> * URL             : David A. W. Soergel
> * License         : BSD
>   Programming Lang: Perl
>   Description     : Rapid and accurate taxonomic classification of short
> paired-end sequence reads from the 16S ribosomal RNA gene

Please shorten the short description.
> 
> Short-read technologies for microbial community profiling are increasingly
> popular, yet previous techniques for assigning taxonomy to paired-end reads
> perform poorly. RTAX provides rapid taxonomic assignments of paired-end reads
> using a consensus algorithm.

I would drop the first sentence - this sounds a lot like the first
sentence in a scientific paper.

Best,
Thomas