Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
> Charles Plessy dijo [Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:17PM +0900]: > > How about "maps short polymorphic reads to reference biological sequences". Le Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:40:28AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf a écrit : > > I think this line is quite nice as a short description - And as the > first line of t

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > After quickly browsing the Maq's user manual, I get the feeling that > its main feature is not assembly (in particular, it can not compute > de novo assemblies). Yes, but can it complete a dense enough map so that it's an assembly? [De novo assembly is

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Charles Plessy dijo [Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 07:00:17PM +0900]: > > Consider: > > > > "assembles short fixed-legth DNA sequences by mapping to reference > > sequences" > > Hi Don, > > After quickly browsing the Maq's user manual, I get the feeling that its > main feature is not assembly (in parti

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:55:01AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > How about "builds assembly by mapping short reads to reference > > sequences"? (cut from Upsteam's website) The mapping is definitely > > not genetic, and if the authors avoided "genom

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > How about "builds assembly by mapping short reads to reference > sequences"? (cut from Upsteam's website) The mapping is definitely > not genetic, and if the authors avoided "genomic", there is probably > a good reason for. Consider: "assembles short

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
ti, 2008-07-08 kello 14:51 +0900, Charles Plessy kirjoitti: > How about "builds assembly by mapping short reads to reference > sequences"? Speaking as an outsider to both biology and interior decoration, as far as I can determine that short description could apply equally well to genetics and IKEA

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 08 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > The more we signal to non-biologists that the package is not for them, > the less we can tell biologists what it does. Couldn't we rely on > Debtags to indicate the field of the package to our users? No. Debtags is meant for searching, it's not meant to

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-08 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: For Lenny, we just removed the `[Biology]' tag that was heading the short descriptions of the packages maintained by the Debian-Med packaging team, and my gut feeling was that forcing additions of "biological" in a field where space is limited was lettin

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:33:41PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > > The problem boils down to the short description not having any words > that are specific to the field the package relates to. I am actually quite happy that the jargon of genomics is still using common dictionnary words. The downsi

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This short description is actually the expansion of the `Maq' acronym. I > usually like to expand acronyms in the short description, but if it is > not appropriate, I will change it. Ah. My post was because I was concerne

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:03:26PM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Description : Mapping and Assembly with Quality > > Please add "genetic" to the short description and no need to > capitalise the words. Also, is "

Re: Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Description : Mapping and Assembly with Quality Please add "genetic" to the short description and no need to capitalise the words. Also, is "with Quality" needed, perhaps it needs to be "with probabilistic quality"?

Bug#489836: ITP: maq -- Mapping and Assembly with Quality

2008-07-07 Thread Charles Plessy
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Package name: maq Version : 0.6.7 Upstream Author : Heng Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://maq.sourceforge.net/ License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : Mapping a