Le Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 06:07:57AM +0200, Matthias Klumpp a écrit : > > Hmm, if those bed files can easily converted into their textual > representation (which presumably is their preferred form of > modification) just adding a hint that this is possible is probably > enough for Debian.
Hi Matthias and everybody, for scientific data, the "preferred form of modification" is a rather misleading concept. The pedigree files in PLINK are telling which gene variants are found in which person, and therefore modifying them does not make much sense. Also, in general, text representations are not necessarly the preferred form for modification of scientific data, because it . For instance, with the "BAM" format, some tools can operate directly on binary streams. Other example, some data (like DNA sequenes produced by Oxford Nanopore sequencers) is in HDF5, which in theory might be serialised in text format with third-party tools, but in practice will always be handled in binary form. I think that what was important to show here is that these files are example data in a standard format, and not a deliberate obsfucation of functional parts of the software (like binary blobs in the kernel, minified Javascript, etc). Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan