Hallo, * Sascha Steinbiss [Sun, Jan 10 2016, 02:25:28PM]: > Hi Eduard, > > > * Sascha Steinbiss [Sun, Jan 10 2016, 11:40:58AM]: > >> Package: wnpp > >> Severity: wishlist > >> Owner: Sascha Steinbiss <sa...@tetrinetsucht.de> > >> > >> * Package name : minimap > >> Version : 0.2 > >> Upstream Author : Heng Li <l...@me.com> > >> * URL : https://github.com/lh3/minimap > >> * License : MIT > >> Programming Lang: C > >> Description : tool to find approximate mapping positions between long > >> sequences > > > > Sounds misleading to me. By looking at the package name and short > > description, I expected some tool for GIS, not biology. > > I see your point. However, I’d like to state for the record though that > ‘mapping’ is a very common term in contemporary biological sequence analysis > and minimap is not the first such tool to bear the word ‘map’ in the name or > description. > > What would you think about changing the short description to explicitly > mention biological sequences. How about ’tool for efficient approximate > mapping of long biosequences such as DNA reads’.
Maybe "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences" or "tool for efficient approximate mapping of long biosequences like DNA reads" But I am not a native speaker and don't have strong preferences here. > One could also think of renaming the package to ‘minimap-bio’ or the like as > a lat resort, but I would rather avoid that. I would stick to upstream name as long as possible. Once a while ago I made the mistake of deviating from upstream just for cosmetic reasons and it always sucked. Regards, Eduard.
