Hi, Here are some comments about the description (done with my wife who works as biologist with such kind of software).
Charles Plessy wrote:
PHYLIP (the PHYLogeny Inference Package) is a package of programs for inferring phylogenies (evolutionary trees). Methods that are available in the package include parsimony, distance matrix, and likelihood methods, including bootstrapping and consensus trees. Data types that can be handled include molecular sequences, gene frequencies, restriction sites and fragments, distance matrices, and discrete characters. . EMBASSY packages include applications with the same look and feel as EMBOSS applications, but which the author wishes to be kept separate from EMBOSS. This is usually because the packages are for specialised sequence analysis or for non-sequence based anaylsis, or are licensed differently to EMBOSS (i.e. non GPL). . EMBOSS - the European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite - is an analysis package specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user community. . The EMBASSY PHYLIP programs all have the prefix "f" to distinguish them from the original programs.
EMBOSS should be presented before EMBASSY as EMBASSY use EMBOSS in its definition. And we fail to see the relation between EMBOSS and PHYLIP. Does PHYLIP is a part of EMBOSS ? Moreover, reading your part on EMBASSY, I understand that EMBOSS is GPL but not necessarily EMBASSY. Am I right ? (I cannot because PHYLIP is not free, so either PHYLIP is not a part of EMBOSS or EMBOSS is not all GPL) Perhaps, you can keep the first paragraph about PHYLIP and then add something such as: Original PHYLIP software is not free. EMBASSY PHYLIP is a free rewrite in the context of the EMBOSS (European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite) project. The EMBASSY PHYLIP programs all have the prefix "f" to distinguish them from the original programs. [of course, I can be totaly wrong if I did not understand the relations between EMBOSS, EMBASSY and PHYLIP] Best regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean Adresse: Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Téléphone: +33 4 76 61 20 11 ENSIMAG - antenne de Montbonnot Fax: +33 4 76 61 20 99 ZIRST 51, avenue Jean Kuntzmann Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 38330 Montbonnot Saint Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]