Hi Steffen, Christoph, Yaroslav, Tony and Charles, I very much like the idea of helping debian-med on ARM in some way. Some of our 4273pi Bioinformatics for Biologists exercises could be scripted, so presumably would work as regression tests. We often don't know the 'real' result but can get the result on AMD64, and check for deviation from that.
Entirely agreed: the Raspberry Pi is not powerful. Somewhere between a Cray 1 and a Cray 2, and with 512 GB RAM. Tony's Parallella will be enormously more powerful and will be great to see. Our teaching on Pi uses full 'industrial-strength' analyses, but on small input. We have not yet used the Pi for genome assembly. Others have: https://twitter.com/richardmleggett/status/211944292128796672 http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00842027 The 4273pi Bioinformatics for Biologists course does not currently use strap. (It uses Clustal-X, not for aligning but for previewing a multiple alignment generated by MAFFT.) We have someone lined up to improve coverage of multiple alignment in the future - I'm not sure what he'll use. Agreed: At this stage we do not have to be extremely detailed about what distribution to contribute to. I am happy to leave this somewhat open for now. Regarding BioLinux possibilities: Ubuntu does not run on the Pi (ARM11 / ARM v6). It does run on the somewhat faster and more expensive Cotton Candy (Cortex-A9, ARM v7, http://www.fxitech.com/cotton-candy/what-is-it/). I will soon own one of these. But irrespective of all this, we absolutely want our future teaching material to be able to 'slot into' BioLinux and will make sure that it fits. Thank you - this conversation has been exceptionally useful, I'm learning a lot. Best wishes, Daniel -- Daniel Barker http://biology.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/db60 The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland : No SC013532 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/ce8c0c25.31232%[email protected]
