Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add samtools

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm: New file
> * gnu-system.am (GNU_SYSTEM_MODULES): Add it

Perfect!

[...]

> +    (synopsis "Efficient utilities on manipulating alignments in the SAM 
> format")

What about “Utilities to manipulate nucleotide sequence alignments”, to
make it clearer that it’s bioinfo-related?

> +    (description
> +     "Samtools implements various utilities for post-processing alignments in
> +the SAM, BAM, and CRAM formats, including indexing, variant calling (in
> +conjunction with bcftools), and a simple alignment viewer.")

Likewise, maybe replace “alignments” with “nucleotide sequence
alignments” or something to that effect?

Thank you!

Ludo’.