[mira_talk] Re: RFC: bundling or not bundling rRNA databases with MIRA

  • From: Chitra P <pattabiraman.chitra@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mira_talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:56:56 +0530

Hi,

That would be great. Look forward to the release. Please bundle :) Good for
novices like me.

Thanks

Chitra

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Liam Elbourne <liam.elbourne@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Bastien,

Bundle away, as you say, 20 Mb is nothing these days.

Regards,
Liam.




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Dr Liam Elbourne

Research Fellow

Paulsen Laboratory

Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences

Macquarie University






On 17 Dec 2015, at 3:11 PM, Bastien Chevreux <bach@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear all,

I plan to release MIRA 4.9.6 soon, either shortly before Christmas or by
mid January. While the bump in version number is small, a lot has happened
behind the scenes.

One feature I have added is the ability of mira/mirabait to directly fish
for or fish out rRNA sequences, something extremely useful in RST/RNASeq
assemblies. There’s just a slight problem: the dataset for this
functionality is ~10Mb. Not several gigabytes like RFAM, Silva or other
rRNA databases, just 10 megabytes … and with that one should be able to
recognise rRNA reads for the vast majority of sequenced organisms on this
planet.

The question I currently have: do I bundle this together with the MIRA
binaries or not?

Pro:
- easy install for novices (and forgetful ppl)
- easy for package and system maintainers

Con:
- the size of the binary distributable package doubles from 10 Mb to 20 Mb

I’m strongly tending for bundling as in today’s world, 10 Mb or 20 Mb are
more or less negligible sizes. However, I would like to have feedback on
this just in case someone sees a larger inconvenience.

Bastien


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