From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12@thebird.nl>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl.
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:52:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150919005221.GA21426@thebird.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150918165606.GA9239@debian>
I checked with the author and he is fine with your version.
Personally I think it is clear from the name that it is an R package,
so that may be superfluous. But then, who knows R ;)
Pj.
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 06:15:01PM +0200, Pjotr Prins wrote:
> > Well, unless someone comes up with a 'proper' description I don't
> > think we'll get anywhere. Tell me what you want to see. We can't
> > explain the whole field of genetics in one line.
>
> Well, I think the package author is the most qualified to write a
> description :-) But let us break the cycle; I am ready to make a suggestion
> that you as a specialist may easily improve, I suppose.
>
> Synopsis:
> R package for analyzing QTL experiments in genetics
>
> I think it is good to have "R package" somewhere, and "genetics", which I
> understand as a layman (and then I do not understand QTL, but that does not
> matter since as you said, if I knew genetics, I would probably understand
> QTL.) Hm, as a layman, "R package" is also not very understandable.
>
> So how about:
> Analysis tools for genetic QTL experiments in the R statistics system
> Too long!
>
> So:
> Tools for genetic QTL experiments in the R system
>
>
> Description: I think the point of critique was mainly that it should
> consist of full sentences with a verb ("blabla is a foo" instead of "foo",
> a minima). So maybe this:
>
> "R/qtl is an extension library for the R statistics system. It is used
> to analyze experimental crosses for identifying genes contributing to
> variation in quantitative traits (so-called quantitative trait loci, QTLs).
>
> Using a hidden Markov model, R/qtl allows to estimate genetic maps, to
> identify genotyping errors, and to perform single-QTL and two-QTL,
> two-dimensional genome scans."
>
> (With some inspiration from the fine web site, of course...)
>
> Andreas
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 14:18 [PATCH] gnu: Add r-qtl Pjotr Prins
2015-09-17 17:18 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2015-09-18 9:23 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-18 9:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-18 11:51 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-18 14:08 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-18 16:15 ` Pjotr Prins
2015-09-18 16:56 ` Andreas Enge
2015-09-19 0:52 ` Pjotr Prins [this message]
2015-09-20 16:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-09-21 5:17 ` Pjotr Prins
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