Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have only located a single medicine-related application, but there are > more in other sections. The whole bunch of gnumed-* packages is a good > example.
That may be a general problem (or feature). I have none installed, but I guess there might be a couple of medical imaging programs: Should they be in Science, or graphics, or even viewers? One would have to look at them in detail. > I added another section named "Analysis", that contains general data > analysis/plotting/calculation applications. If we get this, it should be named "Data Analysis", since "Analysis" is also a subtopic of Mathematics. But I'm not sure it's a good idea: > Analysis [10] > dx - OpenDX (IBM Visualization Data Explorer) - main > package > fityk - general-purpose nonlinear curve fitting and data > analysis > g3data - extract data from scanned graphs > imview - Image viewing and analysis application > ygraph - Visualize one-dimensional scientific data > kboincspy - monitoring utility for the BOINC client > kst-bin - A KDE application used for displaying scientific > data > mn-fit - interactive analysis package for fitting data and > histograms > paje.app - generic visualization tool (Gantt chart and more) > qtdmm - GUI for digital multimeter You didn't put everything there that contains "analysis" in its name - probably you took only "general purpose" things. Hm. Currently, grace(6), which you forgot, is in math. I think that there is no clear border between spreadsheet calculators (Openoffice Calc, gnumeric, ...), which can do a little data fitting and plotting, and full-featured data fitting and plotting programs (fityk, mn-fit,grace), which often can do less data manipulation, but still some. qtdmm looks like it should be in electronics. kboincspy is probably less scientific than a performance monitor - after all it's the central server who does the serious evaluation of the data that the distributed clients calculated. dx has a bad description; I can't tell whether it's a competitor to grace/fityk/Origin/... or not. No suggestions in the paragraphs above, just questions. > I find them very similar to > what is found in "Math", so I consider moving "Mathematics" to "Science" > a good idea. No, I don't think so. Others gave the arguments already. > libncbi6-dev - NCBI libraries for biology applications > (development files) Uups, this one has a menu entry? > Biology [16] > garlic - A visualization program for biomolecules [...] > rasmol - Visualize biological macromolecules [...] > Chemistry [11] [...] > pymol - An OpenGL Molecular Graphics System written in > Python Pymol is heavily used for visualising biomolecules, just as old-fashioned rasmol. I don't think we should separate these. > viewmol - A graphical front end for computational chemistry > programs. > xmakemol - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular > systems > xmakemol-gl - A program for visualizing atomic and molecular > systems These I cannot categorize, but they seem to be similar. > Physics [5] > gdpc - visualiser of molecular dynamic simulations And this is also very near - MD simulations are based on physics, but are performed to answer chemical or, I guess more frequently, macromolecular=biological questions. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
