Bug#735158: ITP: minia -- short-read assembler
On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:03:43 +0100
Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou@irisa.fr> wrote:
> * Package name : minia
> Version : 1.6067
> Upstream Author : Rayan
> * URL : http://minia.genouest.org
> * License : CeCILL
[1] clearly hints there's no such thing as a "CeCILL license",
and in fact there's several of them. I think the concrete one used by
this piece of software should be mentioned, using its precise code name.
> Programming Lang: C
> Description : short-read assembler
>
> Minia is a short-read assembler based on a de Bruijn graph, capable
> of assembling a human genome on a desktop computer in a day. The
> output of Minia is a set of contigs. Minia produces results of
> similar contiguity and accuracy to other de Bruijn assemblers (e.g.
> Velvet).
In computing, most people take the word "assembler" to mean a piece of
software which translates an assembly language of some sort to a form
directly runnable by the CPU of a target hardware platform.
Hence I think the description should be elaborated upon to make it
clear it has to do with DNA and not computer programming.
1. http://bugs.debian.org/565884
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