Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Debian Med Team <[email protected]>
* Package name : virusseeker-virome Version : 0.063 Upstream Author : Guoyan Zhao, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. * URL : https://wupathlabs.wustl.edu/virusseeker/ * License : GPL-3+ Programming Lang: Perl Description : Mine sequence data to identify sequences of microbial origin VirusSeeker is a set of fully automated and modular software package designed for mining sequence data to identify sequences of microbial origin. The pipeline was optimized for analysis of data generated by the Illumina next generation sequencing platform but can be applied to data generated by other platforms as well. . VirusSeeker first identifies candidate viral sequences by comparing with virus-only databases and then identify true viral sequences by comparing the candiate viral sequences to NCBI NT and NR databases. Microbial sequences are identified on the basis of BLAST alignments and the taxonomic classification of the reference sequence(s) to which a read is aligned. Viruses are the focal point of VirusSeeker as released. ________________________________________________________________ Greetings, I intend to give a hand to the Debian Med Team with the packaging of the software VirusSeeker-Virome, which is part of the VirusSeeker suite, itself beeing part of the Covid-19 list of packages needing work established by the Med team: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/community/2020-covid19-hackathon/-/wikis/COVID-19-Hackathon-packages-needing-work A repository for working on the packaging has been opened on Salsa at the following location, and contains a stub of Debian source code packaging: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/virusseeker-virome It is worth noting that the upstream author has apparently opened a public Git repository for VirusSeeker-Virome: https://github.com/guoyanzhao/VirusSeeker-Virome Contrary to the package provided on wupathlabs.wustl.edu, this repository is dfsg compliant, which is good news (the current release ships with a bunch of old scripts licensed under OSL-2.1 apparently not compatible with the GPL-3+). However, it seems still work in progress for the moment, as there are no releases or tags to hang on yet. Kind Regards, -- Étienne Mollier.
