Dear all, rather recently the pkg-eScience effort was initiated to bring the fruits of the MyGrid.org.uk project to Debian and its larger user base. The concept of MyGrid is to integrate local tools and global web-services for biomedical research. Taverna adds a graphical interface to the workflow description language freefluo. MyGrid with Taverna eases the communication between bioinformaticans and wet-lab researchers and is already a good workhorse for some jobs.
For Debian the challenge is for one the dissemination of these skills to researchers. On a technical level it means the extension of the Java packages to those that come distributed as Jar files with the upstream sources. The Taverna package is usable already. Its major problem are the 3rd party jar files that are distributed with Tavera thus rendering the package to be non DFSG-compliant, prohibiting its addition to the main distribution. Another longer term challenge is the eventual integration of Debian's bioinformatics packages to extend the MyGrid services available for MyGrid today. A mailing list, apt- and svn-repositories are available. http://wiki.debian.org/pkg-escience gives all the insights required to join in. To join as a pkg-escience developer on alioth please reply to me. Best regards, Steffen Moeller -- GMX Produkte empfehlen und ganz einfach Geld verdienen! Satte Provisionen für GMX Partner: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/partner -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
