On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:34:47PM +0100, "Steffen Möller" wrote : > > > Wouldn't be useful to create a webpage like those > > at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/? > > > > Of course, actually systems biology inherit science more than medicine. > > debian-science should have its own webpage, shouldn't it? > Andreas Tille does a very good and reliable job that takes more time than > you might anticipate. In short, "No!".
Hi, On the other hand, the debian-med page lists a lot of software which is only distantly related to medecine, and which would better be described by "bioinformatics". I think that it somehow conceals what debian can offer non-M.D. biologists. 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. 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 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... Have a nice day, -- Charles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
