You could, however, provide the dataset as some kind of "accompanying"
package/download. It's not a matter of 10 or 20Mb, it's just that binaries
do change quite frequently; this dataset will probably remain pretty
static. And maybe in future there will be some other, additional dataset
extending the functionality of MIRA, maybe larger, 100Mb,...
I'd spearate data from programs.
my 2p,
best,
Sven
2015-12-17 7:26 GMT+01:00 Chitra P <pattabiraman.chitra@xxxxxxxxx>:
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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