Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Luca Brivio
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:24:09 +0900 Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think that the real problem is that most academic software is non-free, as it often mentions Do not make money with our work, or share it with us. Thus splitting debian-med would result in dilluting sparse

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 1/29/06, Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list. Luca and I chatted briefly on jabber, and we are about to open a wiki page on www.open-bio.org, in which we will list packages in molecular biology and systems biology which could make it into debian, and see how we can help it to

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Luca Brivio
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:32:30 -0500 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the already-existing Debian wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceBiology ? (For those who aren't aware, you don't need to be a Debian Developer to edit the wiki; you just need to create an

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
On 1/29/06, Luca Brivio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:32:30 -0500 Kevin B. McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the already-existing Debian wiki page at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScienceBiology ? (For those who aren't aware, you don't need to be a Debian

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Luca Brivio wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:24:09 +0900 Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think that the real problem is that most academic software is non-free, as it often mentions Do not make money with our work, or share it with us. Thus splitting debian-med

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Luca and I chatted briefly on jabber, and we are about to open a wiki page on www.open-bio.org, in which we will list packages in molecular biology and systems biology which could make it into debian, and see how we can help it to happen. Why not

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-29 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 07:27:13AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote : Well, several months ago I suggested that we should start building such web pages automatically and started some very basic code (which is far from beeing usable and no chance of continuing this for some further months). The

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-28 Thread Steffen Möller
Ciao Luca, Is there anybody interested to packaging software for systems biology? you mean in already packaged software :-) I'm a bioinformatics student, and I noticed nobody within Debian is packaging systems biology-related tools (there is only an old ITP for libsbml). It is mine. I have

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-28 Thread Luca Brivio
Debian is packaging systems biology-related tools (there is only an old ITP for libsbml). It is mine. I have a quite ok package for a while but have never addressed the soname issue. If you are actively using SBML then please take over. A few weeks ago I just didn't know what SBML

Re: Debian for Systems Biology

2006-01-28 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 10:34:47PM +0100, Steffen Möller wrote : Wouldn't be useful to create a webpage like those at http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med/? Of course, actually systems biology inherit science more than medicine. debian-science should have its own webpage, shouldn't