On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:31:32PM +0200, Rudi Chiarito wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 05:03:51AM -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote: > > * bring in the latest and greatest free bioinformatics sw > > I packaged or ported a number of tools already: EMBOSS, Bioperl, > Biojava, Pfaat, Artemis, Jalview, ClustalW, sim4, GBrowse, plus a lot of > support Perl modules. I also have a package for T_coffee, but never > heard back from the authors about redistribution, as the documentation > says you need their permission first - maybe you could help there. On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:58:56PM +0200, Rudi Chiarito wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:55:24AM +0100, John Hearns wrote: > > Wouldn't it be easier to have a Yum repository for > > the bioinformatics stuff? > > That's what I did at work - yum for FC2 and good old autoupdate for > FC1/RH. That's not visible from outside, though, and I fear the > legal/bureaucratic process to host the repository for external access > would be long and complex (there's no lack of hardware or networking > connectivity). As another post suggested there is a very nice repo for bioinformatics and expression analysis called BIOrpms (http://apt.bea.ki.se/). Its maintainer is Bent Terp (cced). Perhaps you want to join forces and have your packages submitted with his site? The DNA (dis?)assembling tux logo is also very cool :) > The repository actually started on my pages at the local LUG, which is, > from time to time, what I point struggling biologists to. Unfortunately, > the box is a bit underpowered to handle load spikes, so I never made any > public announcements. I was just hoping to simply kill the repository > once Fedora had a streamlined submission process, but that's apparently > still in progress. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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