This is a great idea! On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Afif Elghraoui <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, all, > > I've had a couple packages that indicate the availability of data > outside of the source distribution that can be used to try out the > software (and make sure that it actually runs). I didn't think it was a > good idea to bundle the data in with the actual package since it doesn't > change between releases and would take up too much space on the archive > if it was bundled with every upstream tarball. > > For example, at <http://canu.readthedocs.io/en/stable/quick-start.html>, > there are a few reduced datasets that can be used to run assemblies for > PacBio and Nanopore sequencing data. Those files can also be used for > tests of the sprai package, and possibly also for other long-read genome > assemblers. There's also the option of packaging the Assemblathon data > for this purpose, or using simulators to generate datasets for testing. > > Does anyone have suggestions or thoughts on this? > > regards > Afif > > -- > Afif Elghraoui | عفيف الغراوي > http://afif.ghraoui.name > > -- Michael R. Crusoe Community Engineer & Co-founder Common Workflow Language project https://impactstory.org/u/0000-0002-2961-9670 [email protected] +32 (0) 2 808 25 58 +1 480 627 9108
