Dear DebianMed list,
I just joined the group. I am a computational biologist, a microbial
ecologist specifically, who uses mostly Perl when coding. I have been
using Debian-based Linux distros for quite some time (Linux Mint Debian
Edition at the moment) and became interested in packaging software for
Debian.
I maintain a few Perl modules on CPAN (http://search.cpan.org/~fangly/
<http://search.cpan.org/%7Efangly/>) and have recently uploaded my first
deb package, Math::Random::MT::Perl, at
http://mentors.debian.net/package/libmath-random-mt-perl-perl. I have
also joined the Debian Perl group.
DebianMed has already packaged great programs that are useful to
microbial ecologists (e.g. QIIME, Velvet). There are other ones that
could be useful and that I could try to package. For example, MetaVelvet
is an assembler specific to metagenomic datasets (but I do not know if
is mature enough for packaging yet). Another example is Grinder
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/biogrinder/) software to simulate
amplicon and shotgun datasets.
Thanks for letting me join the group and best regards,
Florent
