Le Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 05:35:07PM -0600, Scott Christley a écrit : > > I like the getData effort. Have a set of "data descriptors" with information > about how/where to get data, then when requested performs the download. This > is very much the architecture I was thinking about. I see a number of ways > the project could be expanded. I would like to hear thoughts from Steffen > and Charles about getData before I jump in with a bunch of additions.
Hi Scott, you are more than welcome to work on getData. I think that, in addition to be a tool to install and process local databases, it could be a tool to produce sourceless binary packages. I hope that such packages will be accepted in data.debian.org, although I admit I do not know what is the plan there. In a couple of years, there may be a demand for data packages for non-specialists. It is not impossible that anybody who has a social security and whishes to have his genome sequenced will have this possibility. I do not know how the tools to browse one's own genome as a patient will look like, but perhaps they will require a versionned human genome build with versionned accessory annotations? I think that it is still a good investment to prepare for “apt-get install human-genome”. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- 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/20110216003011.gc21...@merveille.plessy.net
