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Re: task pages: Moved many NGS packages from bio to bio-ngs



Hi Steffen,

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 07:29:47PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> This effort is a bit moot since we should likely follow one of the
> classifications that are already out there (like EDAM ontology topics or
> OMICtools categories),

I do not think that the effort is really moot since there is no code yet
(and nobody volunteered to code this - I for myself feel not really able
to since I'm lacking the biological background).  So for the moment we
need to rely on manual editing.

> but this will take some time. So, I finally got
> around to manually moving a series of NGS-centric packages over to the
> bio-ngs task. I have no exact clue about how quickly the task pages will
> be updated, just possibly give it a check tomorrow about what I have
> missed or about where I was too ambitious while doing the transfer.

Tasks pages are rebuild twice per day and after a change of the tasks
(+30min or so).  So this should not last that long and the latest version
is from

   Last update: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 05:44:29 -0000

(see bottom line of the page).

However, I'm not really sure whether your change is that lucky.
*Currently* the idea behind the tasks pages is:

   bio: Dump *everything* related to bioinformatics in here
        Metapackage is created
   bio-ngs: List programs related to NGS ask task in the web
        **NO** Metapackage is created
   bio-phylogeny: List phylogeny related programs as task in the web
        **NO** Metapackage is created
   cloud: Everything from bio that has no GUI
        Metapackage is created

Your change changes the philosophy behind bio and might make people
wondering why all those NGS related packages might have vanished.

Moreover there is no install method any more to install NGS packages
(at least if we would render metapackages from the current state).

That's why I'm tempted to restore the old bio task with all packages
included - at least as long as we have a better solution.

What do you think?

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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