Hello, On 12/08/2011 06:24 PM, Nick James wrote: > My suggestion is that we just ignore this script as it is not needed > for Ensembl to run. We should decide over time what it means for us to see "Ensembl run". The current definition for our package seems to be "use the public data of Ensembl but have a local user management". This makes some very decent sense for anyone interested in learning or extending the functionality of Ensembl from day one. And with so many other bioinformatics and statistical tools available in Debian, there is plenty of opportunity for everyone to investigate so many different things.
To me, having Ensembl in and so many complete genomes with it, or at least accessible through it, this is the twilight of Open Source and Citizen Science. And when we manage to have it all prepared for technical enthusiasts, we have also prepared it for the technically enthused clinician. They exist - some of them I talk to every day. What happens then - in terms of funding and ideas - we do not know. >From what I grasped, EagleGenomics is excellent in bringing newly sequenced individuals (patients) or pools of such (pathogens) into Ensembl. This means assembly, annotation and comparisons of the sequences. We can as a community learn a lot from their selection of tools for the job and all the scripts they use to perform and control the process. I hope Debian to continue to be important for them and to see Nick and his colleagues help developing Debian further for their immediate needs, and for the long term benefit of us all. Good you are around. Many thanks and regards, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ee1054d.3060...@gmx.de
