[Savannah-register-public] [task #13105] Submission of Bioinformatics Source Release Collection

[Brandon Invergo]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?13105>

                 Summary: Submission of Bioinformatics Source Release
Collection
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: brandon
            Submitted on: Mon 24 Feb 2014 09:46:28 PM CET
         Should Start On: Mon 24 Feb 2014 12:00:00 AM CET
   Should be Finished on: Thu 06 Mar 2014 12:00:00 AM CET
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=11274> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=11274>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *Bioinformatics Source Release Collection*
* System Name:  *biosrc*
* Type: non-GNU software and documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v3 or later (Files derived from GSRC as
well as new BioSRC files (i.e. the Makefiles containing package build
recipies) are under the GPLv3 or later. Files originating from GAR and GARstow
are under the All Permissive license. 

All software installable via BioSRC is available under free software licenses;
each package's license is noted in its Makefile and is printed when the user
requests package information (make pkg-info).

Documentation is under the GFDL 1.2 or later.)

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==== Description: ====
BioSRC (based on GNU SRC) is a Ports-like system for easily installing
bioinformatics software.  There are several reasons why this software is
needed.  First, most GNU/Linux distributions do not include a wide range of
modern bioinformatics software packages, so packages sources need to be
searched for and installed the old-fashioned way. Second, most researchers use
shared computing resources (clusters) and do not have administrator rights for
installing new software.  Thus, they either request that software be installed
for them or they must install it themselves to a directory under their
control.  To this end, BioSRC greatly simplifies the process of fetching and
installing the software, particularly since bioinformatics software tends to
exhibit apalling packaging standards, often requiring manual intervention.


==== Other Software Required: ====
GNU Make - GPLv3orlater - http://www.gnu.org/s/make
GNU sed - GPLv3orlater - http://www.gnu.org/s/sed
GNU wget - GPLv3orlater - http://www.gnu.org/s/wget
GNU coreutils - GPLv3orlater - http://www.gnu.org/s/coreutils


==== Other Comments: ====
Thanks for taking the time to review this! 


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://invergo.net/ups/biosrc-2014.02.24.tar.gz






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