Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> NCBI is the National Center for Biotechnology Information >> (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/). Think about the Google for biological >> research. >> >> My reasonning was that if people install the packages ncbi-tools-*, they >> necessarly know what the NCBI is. These packages are not part of complex >> dependancies networks: > > I don't think we should use organisation name for section. Sections are > supposed to relate to the function of the software. So maybe there is > a common function theses entries uniquely perform. In the negative I > would just let them in Science.
The common function is "Tools to explore NCBI databases". I really don't see any sensible name for a manu subsection for NCBI tools that does not contain "NCBI". The scope is rather broad: ,---- | What does NCBI do? | | Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology | information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in | computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome | data, and disseminates biomedical information - `---- So even a "Molecular Biology" subsection might be too narrow, depending on how you understand the term (Structural Biology?). But in a "Molecular Biology" section we have again the problem that all the NCBI menu entries would clutter the menu and hide interesting other programs. I also do not think that it is a problem if we use NCBI and this term is not understood by users on multi-purpose-installations. They can just ignore it, maybe after a short look into the submenu. Just as you have to learn to ignore lots of other things that are irrelevant to your field of science. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
