[Blends-commit] [SCM] med branch, master, updated. 251eda07708f86b03df9afebb8ec3d93c47400b3

Andreas Tille tille at debian.org
Sun Aug 13 02:05:39 UTC 2017


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 34fd255d51c69636d2999ff62e3fcad067b8a217
Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Sat Aug 5 13:10:03 2017 +0200

    s/Depends/Recommends/

diff --git a/tasks/bio b/tasks/bio
index 2dfc645..232fb8b 100644
--- a/tasks/bio
+++ b/tasks/bio
@@ -6,136 +6,136 @@ Description: Debian Med bioinformatics packages
 
 X-Begin-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
 
-Depends: altree
+Recommends: altree
 
-Depends: beast-mcmc, beast2-mcmc
+Recommends: beast-mcmc, beast2-mcmc
 
-Depends: fastdnaml, njplot, tree-puzzle | tree-ppuzzle
+Recommends: fastdnaml, njplot, tree-puzzle | tree-ppuzzle
 
-Depends: probalign
+Recommends: probalign
 
-Depends: treeviewx
+Recommends: treeviewx
 
-Depends: figtree
+Recommends: figtree
 
-Depends: hyphygui, hyphy-mpi | hyphy-pt
+Recommends: hyphygui, hyphy-mpi | hyphy-pt
 
-Depends: spread-phy
+Recommends: spread-phy
 
 X-End-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
 
-Depends:     phylip
+Recommends:     phylip
 Why:         Phylogenetic analysis (Non-free, thus only suggested).
 
 X-Comment: treetool is removed from Debian because it is not maintained upstream since
  1995 and cause the Xserver to freeze under Squeeze
 
-Depends:     fastlink, loki, plink, plink1.9, r-cran-qtl, r-cran-genabel
+Recommends:     fastlink, loki, plink, plink1.9, r-cran-qtl, r-cran-genabel
 Why:         Genetics
 
 X-Begin-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
 
-Depends:     amap-align
+Recommends:     amap-align
 Remark: Dead upstream
  The homepage of this project vanished as well as the Download area.  An
  old unmaintained version remained at code.google.com.  Please drop the
  maintainer a note if you have any news of this project.
 
-Depends:     boxshade, fastx-toolkit, gff2aplot, muscle, sim4, sibsim4, tabix, tophat, wise
+Recommends:     boxshade, fastx-toolkit, gff2aplot, muscle, sim4, sibsim4, tabix, tophat, wise
 
-Depends:     maqview
+Recommends:     maqview
 
-Depends: blasr
+Recommends: blasr
 
-Depends: daligner
+Recommends: daligner
 
 Suggests: dascrubber
 
-Depends: mhap
+Recommends: mhap
 
-Depends: bwa
+Recommends: bwa
 
-Depends: mummer, e-mem
+Recommends: mummer, e-mem
 
-Depends: ncbi-blast+-legacy, plast
+Recommends: ncbi-blast+-legacy, plast
 
-Depends: ncbi-blast+
+Recommends: ncbi-blast+
 
-Depends: mafft
+Recommends: mafft
 
-Depends: sra-toolkit
+Recommends: sra-toolkit
 
-Depends: t-coffee
+Recommends: t-coffee
 
-Depends: kalign
+Recommends: kalign
 
-Depends: hmmer
+Recommends: hmmer
 
-Depends: exonerate
+Recommends: exonerate
 
-Depends: dialign
+Recommends: dialign
 
-Depends: dialign-tx
+Recommends: dialign-tx
 
-Depends: poa
+Recommends: poa
 
-Depends: probcons
+Recommends: probcons
 
-Depends: proda
+Recommends: proda
 
-Depends: seaview
+Recommends: seaview
 
-Depends: sigma-align
+Recommends: sigma-align
 
-Depends: emboss
+Recommends: emboss
 
-Depends: embassy-domalign, embassy-domainatrix, embassy-domsearch, embassy-phylip
+Recommends: embassy-domalign, embassy-domainatrix, embassy-domsearch, embassy-phylip
 Suggests:    emboss-explorer
 Why:         The EMBOSS sequence analysis suite and its galaxy.
 
-Depends:     arb
+Recommends:     arb
 Why:         Sequence alignments and related programs (Non-free, thus only suggested).
 
-Depends: clustalx, clustalo
+Recommends: clustalx, clustalo
 
-Depends: clustalw
+Recommends: clustalw
 
-Depends: mothur, bowtie, bowtie2
+Recommends: mothur, bowtie, bowtie2
 
-Depends: transtermhp
+Recommends: transtermhp
 
 X-End-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
 
 X-Begin-Category: high-throughput sequencing
 
-Depends: last-align, maq, ssake, velvet | velvet-long
+Recommends: last-align, maq, ssake, velvet | velvet-long
 
-Depends: qiime
+Recommends: qiime
 
 X-End-Category: high-throughput sequencing
 
 X-Begin-Category: Analysis of RNA sequences.
 
-Depends: infernal
+Recommends: infernal
 
-Depends: rnahybrid
+Recommends: rnahybrid
 X-Category: Target duplex prediction
 
 X-End-Category: Analysis of RNA sequences.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics
 
-Depends:     adun-core
+Recommends:     adun-core
 
 Suggests:    adun.app
 
-Depends:     garlic, gamgi, gdpc, ghemical, jmol, pymol, r-cran-bio3d, massxpert
+Recommends:     garlic, gamgi, gdpc, ghemical, jmol, pymol, r-cran-bio3d, massxpert
 
-Depends: gromacs
+Recommends: gromacs
 
-Depends: rasmol
+Recommends: rasmol
 
-Depends: modeller
+Recommends: modeller
 Homepage: http://salilab.org/modeller/
 Pkg-URL: http://salilab.org/modeller/release.html#deb
 Remark: The package is created independently from Debian Med or Debian Science.
@@ -145,35 +145,35 @@ Pkg-Description: MODELLER provides three dimensional structures of proteins by s
 
 X-End-Category: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics
 
-Depends:     plasmidomics
+Recommends:     plasmidomics
 Why:         Presentation
 
 X-Begin-Category: Tools for the molecular biologist.
 
-Depends:     gff2ps, ncbi-epcr, ncbi-tools-bin, ncbi-tools-x11, perlprimer, readseq, tigr-glimmer
+Recommends:     gff2ps, ncbi-epcr, ncbi-tools-bin, ncbi-tools-x11, perlprimer, readseq, tigr-glimmer
 
-Depends: melting
+Recommends: melting
 
 Suggests: melting-gui
 Comment: I think it makes sense to point users to GUI applications as well as to
  the console applications - in this case melting (Andreas Tille)
 
-Depends: mipe
+Recommends: mipe
 
-Depends: primer3
+Recommends: primer3
 
 X-End-Category: Tools for the molecular biologist.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Genome Browser
 
-Depends: artemis
+Recommends: artemis
 
-Depends: gbrowse
+Recommends: gbrowse
 X-Importance: Academic ones are really expensive for commercial use
 
 X-End-Category: Genome Browser
 
-Depends: python3-biomaj3
+Recommends: python3-biomaj3
 
 Suggests: biomaj
 Why: Suggests since mysql setup might be overkill for default client installation
@@ -186,178 +186,178 @@ Remark: biofox was removed from Debian (see #727689)
  the removal.  Please keep us informed if you become aware about
  upstream changes that enable using this plugin for firefox >= 10.
 
-Depends:     glam2
+Recommends:     glam2
 Why:         Motif search
 
-Depends: raster3d
+Recommends: raster3d
 
-Depends: phyml
+Recommends: phyml
 
-Depends: autodock
+Recommends: autodock
 Why:         Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics.
 
-Depends: autogrid
+Recommends: autogrid
 
-Depends: autodock-vina
+Recommends: autodock-vina
 
-Depends: autodocktools, mgltools-pmv, mgltools-vision, mgltools-cadd
+Recommends: autodocktools, mgltools-pmv, mgltools-vision, mgltools-cadd
 
-Depends: mustang
+Recommends: mustang
 
-Depends: probabel
+Recommends: probabel
 
-Depends: theseus
+Recommends: theseus
 
-Depends: staden-io-lib-utils
+Recommends: staden-io-lib-utils
 
-Depends: samtools, bedtools, filo, datamash
+Recommends: samtools, bedtools, filo, datamash
 
-Depends: gassst
+Recommends: gassst
 
-Depends: r-bioc-hilbertvis
+Recommends: r-bioc-hilbertvis
 Remark: It would be interesting to package HilbertVisGUI (see below) as well.
 
-Depends: r-other-mott-happy.hbrem
+Recommends: r-other-mott-happy.hbrem
 
-Depends: seq-gen
+Recommends: seq-gen
 
-Depends: snp-sites
+Recommends: snp-sites
 
-Depends: mira-assembler
+Recommends: mira-assembler
 
-Depends: alien-hunter
+Recommends: alien-hunter
 
-Depends: seqan-apps
+Recommends: seqan-apps
 
-Depends: ncoils
+Recommends: ncoils
 
-Depends: gentle
+Recommends: gentle
 
-Depends: gmap
+Recommends: gmap
 
-Depends: igv
+Recommends: igv
 
-Depends: picard-tools
+Recommends: picard-tools
 
-Depends: acedb-other-dotter, acedb-other-belvu, acedb-other
+Recommends: acedb-other-dotter, acedb-other-belvu, acedb-other
 
-Depends: python-cogent
+Recommends: python-cogent
 
-Depends: paml
+Recommends: paml
 
-Depends: velvetoptimiser
+Recommends: velvetoptimiser
 
-Depends: ensembl
+Recommends: ensembl
 Pkg-URL: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ensembl/63-1/
 Remark: Ensembl was removed from Debian due #645487
  Ensembl used to be in Debian experimental branch but was removed for formal reasons which
  are explained in http://bugs.debian.org/645487
 
-Depends: mrbayes
+Recommends: mrbayes
 
-Depends: pdb2pqr
+Recommends: pdb2pqr
 
-Depends: squizz
+Recommends: squizz
 
-Depends: clonalframe
+Recommends: clonalframe
 
-Depends: dssp
+Recommends: dssp
 
-Depends: jellyfish
+Recommends: jellyfish
 
-Depends: ballview
+Recommends: ballview
 
-Depends: pynast
+Recommends: pynast
 
-Depends: raxml
+Recommends: raxml
 
-Depends: mlv-smile
+Recommends: mlv-smile
 
 Suggests: cain
 
-Depends: cd-hit
+Recommends: cd-hit
 
-Depends: cufflinks
+Recommends: cufflinks
 
-Depends: r-bioc-cummerbund
+Recommends: r-bioc-cummerbund
 
-Depends: eigensoft
+Recommends: eigensoft
 
-Depends: grinder
+Recommends: grinder
 
-Depends: jalview
+Recommends: jalview
 
-Depends: reprof
+Recommends: reprof
 
-Depends: tm-align
+Recommends: tm-align
 
-Depends: norsnet
+Recommends: norsnet
 
-Depends: norsp
+Recommends: norsp
 
-Depends: predictnls
+Recommends: predictnls
 
-Depends: prime-phylo
+Recommends: prime-phylo
 
-Depends: proftmb
+Recommends: proftmb
 
-Depends: profbval
+Recommends: profbval
 
-Depends: profisis
+Recommends: profisis
 
-Depends: hhsuite
+Recommends: hhsuite
 
-Depends: ffindex
+Recommends: ffindex
 
-Depends: flexbar
+Recommends: flexbar
 
-Depends: blimps-utils
+Recommends: blimps-utils
 
-Depends: sift
+Recommends: sift
 
-Depends: neobio
+Recommends: neobio
 
-Depends: ray
+Recommends: ray
 
-Depends: ugene
+Recommends: ugene
 
-Depends: logol-bin
+Recommends: logol-bin
 
-Depends: soapdenovo, soapdenovo2
+Recommends: soapdenovo, soapdenovo2
 
-Depends: microbiomeutil, chimeraslayer, nast-ier, wigeon
+Recommends: microbiomeutil, chimeraslayer, nast-ier, wigeon
 
-Depends: minia
+Recommends: minia
 
-Depends: trimmomatic
+Recommends: trimmomatic
 
-Depends: saint
+Recommends: saint
 
-Depends: rtax
+Recommends: rtax
 
-Depends: rate4site
+Recommends: rate4site
 
-Depends: rna-star
+Recommends: rna-star
 
-Depends: topp, openms
+Recommends: topp, openms
 
-Depends: scythe
+Recommends: scythe
 
-Depends: sickle
+Recommends: sickle
 
-Depends: kmc
+Recommends: kmc
 
-Depends: king-probe
+Recommends: king-probe
 
-Depends: ncl-tools
+Recommends: ncl-tools
 
-Depends: tvc
+Recommends: tvc
 
 Suggests: science-workflow
 
-Depends: libvcflib-tools
+Recommends: libvcflib-tools
 
-Depends: bppsuite, bppphyview
+Recommends: bppsuite, bppphyview
 
 Suggests: getdata
 
@@ -365,180 +365,180 @@ X-Mark: Prospective packages are starting here
 
 X-Mark: Packages in Vcs - Information about these is queried from UDD as well
 
-Depends: acacia
+Recommends: acacia
 
-Depends: adapterremoval
+Recommends: adapterremoval
 
-Depends: aegean
+Recommends: aegean
 
-Depends: andi
+Recommends: andi
 
-Depends: arden
+Recommends: arden
 
-Depends: artfastqgenerator, art-nextgen-simulation-tools
+Recommends: artfastqgenerator, art-nextgen-simulation-tools
 
-Depends: augustus
+Recommends: augustus
 
-Depends: baitfisher
+Recommends: baitfisher
 
-Depends: beagle
+Recommends: beagle
 
-Depends: bedops
+Recommends: bedops
 
-Depends: biceps
+Recommends: biceps
 Remark: Mentioned at http://www.renard.it/, developed in RKI
 
-Depends: cnvkit
+Recommends: cnvkit
 
-Depends: diamond-aligner
+Recommends: diamond-aligner
 
-Depends: emperor
+Recommends: emperor
 
-Depends: euler2, euler-sr
+Recommends: euler2, euler-sr
 
-Depends: fitgcp
+Recommends: fitgcp
 
-Depends: gasic
+Recommends: gasic
 
-Depends: giira
+Recommends: giira
 
-Depends: ipig
+Recommends: ipig
 
-Depends: aevol
+Recommends: aevol
 
-Depends: alter-sequence-alignment
+Recommends: alter-sequence-alignment
 
-Depends: amos-assembler, hawkeye
+Recommends: amos-assembler, hawkeye
 Language: Perl
 
-Depends: anfo
+Recommends: anfo
 
-Depends: apollo
+Recommends: apollo
 
-Depends: aragorn
+Recommends: aragorn
 
-Depends: ariba
+Recommends: ariba
 
-Depends: atac
+Recommends: atac
 
-Depends: axe-demultiplexer
+Recommends: axe-demultiplexer
 
-Depends: axparafit, axpcoords
+Recommends: axparafit, axpcoords
 
-Depends: barrnap
+Recommends: barrnap
 
-Depends: bamtools
+Recommends: bamtools
 
-Depends: bagpipe
+Recommends: bagpipe
 
-Depends: bcftools
+Recommends: bcftools
 WNPP: 804007
 
-Depends: bigsdb
+Recommends: bigsdb
 
-Depends: bio-eagle
+Recommends: bio-eagle
 
-Depends: bio-tradis
+Recommends: bio-tradis
 
-Depends: bitseq
+Recommends: bitseq
 
-Depends: blat
+Recommends: blat
 
-Depends: blobology
+Recommends: blobology
 
-Depends: bio-rainbow
+Recommends: bio-rainbow
 
-Depends: card-rgi
+Recommends: card-rgi
 
-Depends: cassiopee
+Recommends: cassiopee
 
-Depends: ccs
+Recommends: ccs
 
-Depends: cdbfasta
+Recommends: cdbfasta
 
-Depends: cgview, brig
+Recommends: cgview, brig
 
-Depends: cinema
+Recommends: cinema
 Language: Java
 
-Depends: circlator
+Recommends: circlator
 
-Depends: clearcut
+Recommends: clearcut
 
-Depends: clonalorigin
+Recommends: clonalorigin
 
-Depends: cluster3
+Recommends: cluster3
 
-Depends: codonw
+Recommends: codonw
 
-Depends: condetri
+Recommends: condetri
 
-Depends: contrafold
+Recommends: contrafold
 
-Depends: crac
+Recommends: crac
 
-Depends: crossbow
+Recommends: crossbow
 X-Category: Sequencing
 
-Depends: crux-toolkit
+Recommends: crux-toolkit
 
-Depends: cutadapt
+Recommends: cutadapt
 
-Depends: cytoscape
+Recommends: cytoscape
 
-Depends: dawg
+Recommends: dawg
 
-Depends: dazzdb
+Recommends: dazzdb
 
-Depends: dazzle
+Recommends: dazzle
 
-Depends: deepnano
+Recommends: deepnano
 Remark: There is no intend to keep continue the existing packaging since
  the program nanocall seems to serve the intended purpose better
 
-Depends: dindel
+Recommends: dindel
 
-Depends: dwgsim
+Recommends: dwgsim
 
-Depends: ea-utils
+Recommends: ea-utils
 
-Depends: ecell
+Recommends: ecell
 
-Depends: ecopcr
+Recommends: ecopcr
 
-Depends: edtsurf
+Recommends: edtsurf
 
-Depends: emmax
+Recommends: emmax
 
-Depends: examl, raxml-ng
+Recommends: examl, raxml-ng
 
-Depends: exabayes
+Recommends: exabayes
 
-Depends: berkeley-express
+Recommends: berkeley-express
 
-Depends: falcon
+Recommends: falcon
 
-Depends: fasta3
+Recommends: fasta3
 
-Depends: fasttree
+Recommends: fasttree
 
-Depends: fastahack
+Recommends: fastahack
 
-Depends: fastaq
+Recommends: fastaq
 
-Depends: fastml
+Recommends: fastml
 
-Depends: fastqc
+Recommends: fastqc
 
-Depends: fastqtl
+Recommends: fastqtl
 
-Depends: ffp
+Recommends: ffp
 
-Depends: unc-fish
+Recommends: unc-fish
 
-Depends: fml-asm
+Recommends: fml-asm
 
-Depends: forester
+Recommends: forester
 Pkg-URL: http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux/dists/unstable/bio-linux/binary-amd64
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
  BioLinux was following the upstream name change to archaeopteryx and thus the
@@ -546,11 +546,11 @@ Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
  .
  The binary package is full of JARs without source.
 
-Depends: freecontact
+Recommends: freecontact
 
-Depends: freebayes
+Recommends: freebayes
 
-Depends: fsa
+Recommends: fsa
 Enhances: t-coffee
 Remark: Precondition for T-Coffee
  see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/TCoffee
@@ -558,296 +558,296 @@ Remark: Precondition for T-Coffee
  Upstream address bounced when contacting about segfaults so it seems to be
  dead upstream and no good code quality.
 
-Depends: fsm-lite
+Recommends: fsm-lite
 
-Depends: garli
+Recommends: garli
 
-Depends: gatk
+Recommends: gatk
 
-Depends: genometools
+Recommends: genometools
 
-Depends: grabix
+Recommends: grabix
 
-Depends: graphlan
+Recommends: graphlan
 
-Depends: grogui
+Recommends: grogui
 
-Depends: gwama
+Recommends: gwama
 
-Depends: gubbins
+Recommends: gubbins
 
-Depends: haploview
+Recommends: haploview
 
-Depends: harvest-tools
+Recommends: harvest-tools
 
-Depends: hilive
+Recommends: hilive
 
-Depends: hisat2
+Recommends: hisat2
 
-Depends: hmmer2
+Recommends: hmmer2
 Remark: This older version of HMMER is used in some applications
  While Debian has HMMER 3 since some time there are users of
  HMMER 2 interested in having this old version available and
  thus the package is reintroduced.
 
-Depends: htqc
+Recommends: htqc
 
-Depends: idba
+Recommends: idba
 
-Depends: indelible
+Recommends: indelible
 
-Depends: iqtree
+Recommends: iqtree
 
-Depends: iva
+Recommends: iva
 
-Depends: jaligner
+Recommends: jaligner
 
-Depends: jbrowse
+Recommends: jbrowse
 
-Depends: jmodeltest
+Recommends: jmodeltest
 
-Depends: kempbasu
+Recommends: kempbasu
 
-Depends: kineticstools
+Recommends: kineticstools
 WNPP: 797676
 
-Depends: kissplice
+Recommends: kissplice
 
-Depends: kraken
+Recommends: kraken
 
-Depends: lagan
+Recommends: lagan
 X-Category: Comparative genomics
 
-Depends: lambda-align
+Recommends: lambda-align
 
-Depends: leaff
+Recommends: leaff
 
-Depends: ltrsift
+Recommends: ltrsift
 
-Depends: lofreq
+Recommends: lofreq
 
-Depends: logomat-m
+Recommends: logomat-m
 
-Depends: kclust
+Recommends: kclust
 
-Depends: khmer
+Recommends: khmer
 
-Depends: kmer
+Recommends: kmer
 
-Depends: radiant
+Recommends: radiant
 
-Depends: lefse
+Recommends: lefse
 
-Depends: mach-haplotyper
+Recommends: mach-haplotyper
 
-Depends: macs
+Recommends: macs
 
-Depends: macsyfinder
+Recommends: macsyfinder
 
-Depends: maffilter
+Recommends: maffilter
 
-Depends: mage2tab
+Recommends: mage2tab
 
-Depends: malt
+Recommends: malt
 
-Depends: manta
+Recommends: manta
 
-Depends: mapdamage
+Recommends: mapdamage
 
-Depends: martj
+Recommends: martj
 
-Depends: mash
+Recommends: mash
 
-Depends: progressivemauve
+Recommends: progressivemauve
 X-Category: Multiple genome alignment
 X-Importance: efficient
 
-Depends: mauve-aligner
+Recommends: mauve-aligner
 
-Depends: meme
+Recommends: meme
 License: non-free for commercial purpose (http://meme.nbcr.net/meme/COPYRIGHT.html)
 
-Depends: meryl
+Recommends: meryl
 
-Depends: metabit
+Recommends: metabit
 
-Depends: metaphlan2
+Recommends: metaphlan2
 
-Depends: metastudent
+Recommends: metastudent
 
 Suggests: metastudent-data, metastudent-data-2, metastudent-data-3
 
-Depends: microbegps
+Recommends: microbegps
 
-Depends: miniasm
+Recommends: miniasm
 
-Depends: minimap
+Recommends: minimap
 
-Depends: molekel
+Recommends: molekel
 
-Depends: mosaik-aligner
+Recommends: mosaik-aligner
 
-Depends: mpsqed
+Recommends: mpsqed
 
 Suggests: mrs
 Remark: mrs might occupy a lot of space on users disk - so you want to avoid this package from the metapackage recommends
 
-Depends: mptp
+Recommends: mptp
 
-Depends: mugsy
+Recommends: mugsy
 
-Depends: murasaki
+Recommends: murasaki
 
-Depends: nanocall
+Recommends: nanocall
 
-Depends: nanopolish
+Recommends: nanopolish
 
-Depends: ncbi-entrez-direct
+Recommends: ncbi-entrez-direct
 WNPP: 810949
 
-Depends: ncbi-seg
+Recommends: ncbi-seg
 
-Depends: nextsv
+Recommends: nextsv
 
-Depends: ngila
+Recommends: ngila
 
-Depends: ngsqctoolkit
+Recommends: ngsqctoolkit
 
-Depends: nw-align
+Recommends: nw-align
 
-Depends: oases
+Recommends: oases
 
-Depends: obitools
+Recommends: obitools
 
-Depends: r-other-apmswapp
+Recommends: r-other-apmswapp
 
-Depends: pal2nal
+Recommends: pal2nal
 
-Depends: paleomix
+Recommends: paleomix
 
-Depends: paraclu
+Recommends: paraclu
 
-Depends: parsinsert
+Recommends: parsinsert
 
-Depends: parsnp
+Recommends: parsnp
 
-Depends: partitionfinder
+Recommends: partitionfinder
 
-Depends: patman
+Recommends: patman
 
-Depends: patristic
+Recommends: patristic
 Language: Java
 
-Depends: pbalign, pbbarcode, pbdagcon
+Recommends: pbalign, pbbarcode, pbdagcon
 
-Depends: pbsuite
+Recommends: pbsuite
 WNPP: 807802
 
-Depends: pbgenomicconsensus
+Recommends: pbgenomicconsensus
 
-Depends: pbjelly, pbhoney
+Recommends: pbjelly, pbhoney
 
-Depends: pbh5tools
+Recommends: pbh5tools
 
-Depends: pbsim
+Recommends: pbsim
 
-Depends: pcma
+Recommends: pcma
 Remark: Precondition for T-Coffee
  see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/TCoffee
  .
  Check with authors about licensing, they adopted code from clustalw which is now
  free.  Thus a change might be possible
 
-Depends: perm
+Recommends: perm
 
-Depends: pftools
+Recommends: pftools
 
-Depends: phast
+Recommends: phast
 
-Depends: phipack
+Recommends: phipack
 
-Depends: phybin
+Recommends: phybin
 
-Depends: phylophlan
+Recommends: phylophlan
 Remark: usearch can not be replaced since vsearch does not work with proteins
  See https://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2016/05/msg00091.html
 
-Depends: phyloviz-core
+Recommends: phyloviz-core
 Remark: There are several plugins to package
  The download page http://www.phyloviz.net/wiki/plugins/ lists several plugins
  that should be packaged (single or as bundle) as well.
 
-Depends: phyutility
+Recommends: phyutility
 
-Depends: piler
+Recommends: piler
 
-Depends: pipasic, inspect, tide
+Recommends: pipasic, inspect, tide
 
-Depends: physamp
+Recommends: physamp
 
-Depends: pirs
+Recommends: pirs
 
-Depends: placnet
+Recommends: placnet
 
-Depends: plato
+Recommends: plato
 
-Depends: plip
+Recommends: plip
 
-Depends: poretools
+Recommends: poretools
 
-Depends: prank
+Recommends: prank
 
-Depends: predictprotein
+Recommends: predictprotein
 
-Depends: proalign
+Recommends: proalign
 
-Depends: prodigal
+Recommends: prodigal
 
-Depends: prokka
+Recommends: prokka
 
-Depends: proteinortho
+Recommends: proteinortho
 
-Depends: prottest
+Recommends: prottest
 
-Depends: psortb
+Recommends: psortb
 
-Depends: pscan-tfbs
+Recommends: pscan-tfbs
 
-Depends: psipred
+Recommends: psipred
 
-Depends: pssh2
+Recommends: pssh2
 
-Depends: pycorrfit
+Recommends: pycorrfit
 
-Depends: pyscanfcs
+Recommends: pyscanfcs
 
-Depends: python-reaper
+Recommends: python-reaper
 
-Depends: python-treetime
+Recommends: python-treetime
 
-Depends: qcumber
+Recommends: qcumber
 
-Depends: qtltools
+Recommends: qtltools
 
-Depends: qualimap
+Recommends: qualimap
 
-Depends: quorum
+Recommends: quorum
 
-Depends: rambo-k
+Recommends: rambo-k
 
-Depends: rapmap
+Recommends: rapmap
 
-Depends: r-bioc-rtracklayer, r-bioc-gviz, r-bioc-biostrings, r-bioc-annotate, r-bioc-genefilter
+Recommends: r-bioc-rtracklayer, r-bioc-gviz, r-bioc-biostrings, r-bioc-annotate, r-bioc-genefilter
 
-Depends: r-bioc-deseq2, r-bioc-dnacopy, r-bioc-geneplotter
+Recommends: r-bioc-deseq2, r-bioc-dnacopy, r-bioc-geneplotter
 
-Depends: r-bioc-mergeomics
+Recommends: r-bioc-mergeomics
 
-Depends: r-bioc-metagenomeseq, r-bioc-phyloseq
+Recommends: r-bioc-metagenomeseq, r-bioc-phyloseq
 
-Depends: r-bioc-ebseq
+Recommends: r-bioc-ebseq
 
-Depends: r-bioc-limma, r-bioc-edger
+Recommends: r-bioc-limma, r-bioc-edger
 
 Suggests: r-bioc-annotationhub, r-bioc-aroma.light, r-bioc-ensembldb, r-bioc-go.db
 
@@ -855,75 +855,75 @@ Suggests: r-bioc-savr
 
 Suggests: r-cran-qqman
 
-Depends: r-cran-rotl
+Recommends: r-cran-rotl
 
 Suggests: r-cran-rentrez
 
-Depends: r-cran-adegenet, r-cran-adephylo
+Recommends: r-cran-adegenet, r-cran-adephylo
 
-Depends: r-cran-distory
+Recommends: r-cran-distory
 
-Depends: r-cran-metamix
+Recommends: r-cran-metamix
 
-Depends: r-cran-phangorn
+Recommends: r-cran-phangorn
 
-Depends: r-cran-pscbs
+Recommends: r-cran-pscbs
 
 Suggests: r-cran-boolnet
 
-Depends: r-cran-seqinr
+Recommends: r-cran-seqinr
 
-Depends: r-cran-vegan
+Recommends: r-cran-vegan
 
 Suggests: r-cran-pheatmap
 
-Depends: relion-bin+gui | relion-bin+mpi+gui, relion-bin | relion-bin+mpi
+Recommends: relion-bin+gui | relion-bin+mpi+gui, relion-bin | relion-bin+mpi
 
-Depends: r-other-valdar-bagphenotype.library
+Recommends: r-other-valdar-bagphenotype.library
 
-Depends: rdp-alignment, rdp-readseq, rdp-classifier
+Recommends: rdp-alignment, rdp-readseq, rdp-classifier
 
-Depends: reapr
+Recommends: reapr
 
-Depends: repeatmasker-recon
+Recommends: repeatmasker-recon
 
-Depends: repeatmasker
+Recommends: repeatmasker
 
-Depends: roadtrips
+Recommends: roadtrips
 
-Depends: roary
+Recommends: roary
 
-Depends: roguenarok
+Recommends: roguenarok
 
-Depends: rosetta
+Recommends: rosetta
 
-Depends: rsat
+Recommends: rsat
 
-Depends: rsem
+Recommends: rsem
 
-Depends: sambamba
+Recommends: sambamba
 
-Depends: salmon
+Recommends: salmon
 
-Depends: sap
+Recommends: sap
 Remark: Precondition for T-Coffee
  see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMed/TCoffee
 
-Depends: scrm
+Recommends: scrm
 
-Depends: sga
+Recommends: sga
 
-Depends: seer
+Recommends: seer
 
-Depends: segemehl
+Recommends: segemehl
 
-Depends: seqprep
+Recommends: seqprep
 
-Depends: seqsero
+Recommends: seqsero
 
-Depends: seqtk
+Recommends: seqtk
 
-Depends: sequenceconverter.app
+Recommends: sequenceconverter.app
 Remark: Formerly part of Debian as biococoa.app but removed
  The package was part of Debian under the name biococoa.app which is confusing
  because biococoa is actually a library for working with sequences under GNUstep.
@@ -935,124 +935,124 @@ Remark: Formerly part of Debian as biococoa.app but removed
  newer versions are needed to work under Linux try to convince upstream to
  support GNUstep.
 
-Depends: situs
+Recommends: situs
 
-Depends: sim4db
+Recommends: sim4db
 
-Depends: smalt
+Recommends: smalt
 Remark: This can be regarded as successor of ssaha2
  This program is from the same author as ssaha2 and according to its author
  faster and more precise than ssaha2 (except for sequences > 2000bp).
 
-Depends: smithwaterman
+Recommends: smithwaterman
 
-Depends: ssw-align
+Recommends: ssw-align
 
-Depends: smrtanalysis
+Recommends: smrtanalysis
 
-Depends: snpeff
+Recommends: snpeff
 
-Depends: snpomatic
+Recommends: snpomatic
 
-Depends: sortmerna
+Recommends: sortmerna
 
-Depends: snap-aligner
+Recommends: snap-aligner
 
-Depends: sniffles
+Recommends: sniffles
 
-Depends: spaced
+Recommends: spaced
 WNPP: 815672
 
-Depends: spades
+Recommends: spades
 
-Depends: sparta
+Recommends: sparta
 
-Depends: sprai
+Recommends: sprai
 
-Depends: srst2
+Recommends: srst2
 
-Depends: ssaha
+Recommends: ssaha
 Remark: Successor for ssaha2 available: smalt
  The program smalt is from the same author is according to its author
  faster and more precise than ssaha2 (except for sequences > 2000bp)
 
-Depends: sspace
+Recommends: sspace
 
-Depends: staden
+Recommends: staden
 
-Depends: stacks
+Recommends: stacks
 
-Depends: strap, strap-base
+Recommends: strap, strap-base
 Language: Java
 
-Depends: subread
+Recommends: subread
 
-Depends: suitename
+Recommends: suitename
 
-Depends: sumatra, sumaclust
+Recommends: sumatra, sumaclust
 
-Depends: sumtrees
+Recommends: sumtrees
 
-Depends: surankco
+Recommends: surankco
 
-Depends: swarm
+Recommends: swarm
 
-Depends: tacg
+Recommends: tacg
 X-Category: Motif detection
 X-Importance: powerful
 
-Depends: tantan
+Recommends: tantan
 
-Depends: toppred
+Recommends: toppred
 
-Depends: transdecoder
+Recommends: transdecoder
 
-Depends: tnseq-transit
+Recommends: tnseq-transit
 
-Depends: tn-seqexplorer
+Recommends: tn-seqexplorer
 
-Depends: transrate-tools
+Recommends: transrate-tools
 
-Depends: treeview
+Recommends: treeview
 X-Category: Visualisation
 
-X-Depends: treevolve
+X-Recommends: treevolve
 X-Comment: Homepage of software vanished, packaging in SVN is obviosely stalled
  Feel free to delete the 'X-' in front if you intend to do something on this package
 
-Depends: trinityrnaseq
+Recommends: trinityrnaseq
 
-Depends: uc-echo
+Recommends: uc-echo
 X-Category: NGS
 
-Depends: varna
+Recommends: varna
 
-Depends: varmatch
+Recommends: varmatch
 
-Depends: varscan
+Recommends: varscan
 
-Depends: vienna-rna
+Recommends: vienna-rna
 X-Category: Secondary structure of nucleic acids
 
-Depends: vmd
+Recommends: vmd
 
-Depends: vsearch
+Recommends: vsearch
 
-Depends: canu
+Recommends: canu
 Remark: Genome assembly and large-scale genome alignment (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: zalign
+Recommends: zalign
 
-Depends: zodiac-zeden
+Recommends: zodiac-zeden
 Language: C, C++
 
-Depends: discosnp, mapsembler2
+Recommends: discosnp, mapsembler2
 
-Depends: dnaclust
+Recommends: dnaclust
 
 X-Mark: The information below needs to be checked whether it can be obtained from Vcs or needs to stay here
 
-Depends: copycat
+Recommends: copycat
 Homepage: http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/copycat/welcome.html
 License: Use of the program is free for academic purposes at an academic institute. For all other uses, please contact the authors.
 Pkg-Description: fast access to cophylogenetic analyses
@@ -1063,7 +1063,7 @@ Pkg-Description: fast access to cophylogenetic analyses
  creation of customized host-parasite association data and the
  computation of phylogenetic host/parasite trees based on the NCBI taxonomy.
 
-Depends: btk-core
+Recommends: btk-core
 Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/btk/
 Responsible: Morten Kjeldgaard <mok at bioxray.au.dk>
 License: GPL
@@ -1074,7 +1074,7 @@ Pkg-Description: biomolecule Toolkit C++ library
  for common tasks in structural biology to facilitate the development of
  molecular modeling, design and analysis tools.
 
-Depends: asap
+Recommends: asap
 Homepage: http://asap.ahabs.wisc.edu/software/asap/
 Responsible: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
 License: GPL
@@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ Pkg-Description: organize the data associated with a genome
  inter-operable between sites.
 X-Category: Annotation
 
-Depends: cactus
+Recommends: cactus
 Homepage: http://www.cactuscode.org/Community/Biology.html
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description:
@@ -1116,7 +1116,7 @@ Pkg-Description:
  Metacomputing Toolkit, HDF5 parallel file I/O, the PETSc scientific library,
  adaptive mesh refinement, web interfaces, and advanced visualization tools.
 
-Depends: contralign
+Recommends: contralign
 Homepage: http://contra.stanford.edu/contralign/
 License: Public Domain
 Pkg-Description: parameter learning framework for protein pairwise sequence alignment
@@ -1127,14 +1127,14 @@ Pkg-Description: parameter learning framework for protein pairwise sequence alig
  previously unseen sequences and avoid overfitting by controlling model
  complexity through regularization.
 
-Depends: concavity
+Recommends: concavity
 Homepage: http://compbio.cs.princeton.edu/concavity/
 
-Depends: conservation-code
+Recommends: conservation-code
 Homepage: http://compbio.cs.princeton.edu/conservation/
 WNPP: 690058
 
-Depends: galaxy
+Recommends: galaxy
 Homepage: http://g2.trac.bx.psu.edu/
 License: MIT
 WNPP: 432472
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ Pkg-Description: manipulate sequences and annotation files
  strong ties with the UCSC genome browser, and makes it easy to
  visualise modified annotation files as a custom track.
 
-Depends: genographer
+Recommends: genographer
 Homepage: http://hordeum.oscs.montana.edu/genographer/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: read data and reconstruct them into a gel image
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ Pkg-Description: read data and reconstruct them into a gel image
  The program is written in Java and uses the Java 1.3 API. Therefore,
  it should run on any machine that can run java.
 
-Depends: pftools
+Recommends: pftools
 Homepage: ftp://us.expasy.org/databases/prosite/tools/ps_scan/sources
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: tools to handle profiles of protein domains from PROSITE
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@ Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
 Pkg-URL: http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/bio-linux/dists/unstable/bio-linux/binary-i386/
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: phylographer
+Recommends: phylographer
 Homepage: http://www.atgc.org/PhyloGrapher/PhyloGrapher_Welcome.html
 License: GPL
 X-Category: Graphical representation of sequence conservation
@@ -1196,7 +1196,7 @@ Remark: Outdated upstream, better alternatives available
  The former packaging effort of this package was dropped.  It seems
  that http://cytoscape.org/ is a reasonable replacement.
 
-Depends: phylowin
+Recommends: phylowin
 Homepage: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/phylowin.html
 WNPP: 395840
 License: unknown
@@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ Remark: Issuer of previous ITP said:
  Probably it makes sense to remove this project from the prospective packages
  list.
 
-Depends: gbioseq
+Recommends: gbioseq
 Homepage: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=94
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: DNA sequence editor for Linux
@@ -1229,14 +1229,14 @@ Pkg-Description: DNA sequence editor for Linux
  The goal is to provide an easy to use software to edit DNA sequences under
  Linux, Windows, MacOsX, using GTK C# (Mono).
 
-Depends: phpphylotree
+Recommends: phpphylotree
 Homepage: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=372
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: draw phylogenetic trees
  PhpPhylotree is a web application that is able to draw phylogenetic trees.
  It produces an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) file from phylip/newick tree files.
 
-Depends: tracetuner
+Recommends: tracetuner
 Homepage: http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/software/tracetuner/overview
 License: GPL; but US Patent #6,681,186
 Pkg-Description: DNA sequencing and trace processing
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ Pkg-Description: DNA sequencing and trace processing
  and conditions of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as published by the
  Free Software Foundation (the "GNU General Public License").
 
-Depends: twain
+Recommends: twain
 Homepage: http://cbcb.umd.edu/software/pirate/twain/twain.shtml
 License: Open Source
 Pkg-Description: syntenic genefinder employing a Generalized Pair Hidden Markov Model
@@ -1288,7 +1288,7 @@ Pkg-Description: syntenic genefinder employing a Generalized Pair Hidden Markov
  Slides from a talk at Computational Genomics 2004 are now available.
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: rose
+Recommends: rose
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/rose/Rose.html
 License: Open Source
 Pkg-Description: Region-Of-Synteny Extractor
@@ -1307,7 +1307,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Region-Of-Synteny Extractor
  boundaries of the output region.
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: glimmerhmm
+Recommends: glimmerhmm
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/glimmerhmm/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: Eukaryotic Gene-Finding System
@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Eukaryotic Gene-Finding System
  user manual can be consulted here.
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: genezilla
+Recommends: genezilla
 Homepage: http://www.genezilla.org/
 License: Artistic
 Language: C++
@@ -1352,7 +1352,7 @@ Pkg-Description: eukaryotic gene finder
  for the comparative gene finder TWAIN.
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: exalt
+Recommends: exalt
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/exalt/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: phylogenetic generalized hidden Markov model for predicting alternatively spliced exons
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ Pkg-Description: phylogenetic generalized hidden Markov model for predicting alt
  run on other species.
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: jigsaw
+Recommends: jigsaw
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/jigsaw/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: gene prediction using multiple sources of evidence
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ Pkg-Description: gene prediction using multiple sources of evidence
  custom tracks in the UCSC Human Genome Browser
 Remark: Computational Gene Finding (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: genesplicer
+Recommends: genesplicer
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/GeneSplicer/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: computational method for splice site prediction
@@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ Pkg-Description: motif discovery tool
  On the other hand the SMILE author told us in private mail that he
  thinks that RISO is dead and SMILE continues to have some importance.
 
-Depends: mummergpu
+Recommends: mummergpu
 Homepage: http://mummergpu.sourceforge.net/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: High-throughput sequence alignment using Graphics Processing Units
@@ -1466,7 +1466,7 @@ Pkg-Description: High-throughput sequence alignment using Graphics Processing Un
  technologies.
 Remark: Genome assembly and large-scale genome alignment (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: amoscmp
+Recommends: amoscmp
 Homepage: http://amos.sourceforge.net/docs/pipeline/AMOScmp.html
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: comparative genome assembly package
@@ -1495,7 +1495,7 @@ Pkg-Description: comparative genome assembly package
  modular open-source framework for assembly development.
 Remark: Genome assembly and large-scale genome alignment (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: minimus
+Recommends: minimus
 Homepage: http://amos.sourceforge.net/docs/pipeline/minimus.html
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: AMOS lightweight assembler
@@ -1587,7 +1587,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Transcript Annotation Prioritization and Screening System
 Remark: Found at
  http://gforge.nci.nih.gov/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=337
 
-Depends: bambus
+Recommends: bambus
 Homepage: http://amos.sourceforge.net/docs/bambus/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: hierarchical approach to building contig scaffolds
@@ -1602,7 +1602,7 @@ Pkg-Description: hierarchical approach to building contig scaffolds
  integrated with the AMOS package (see http://amos.sourceforge.net/)
 Remark: Genome assembly and large-scale genome alignment (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: gmv
+Recommends: gmv
 Homepage: http://murasaki.dna.bio.keio.ac.jp/wiki/index.php?GMV
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: comparative genome browser for Murasaki
@@ -1610,14 +1610,14 @@ Pkg-Description: comparative genome browser for Murasaki
  anchors from Murasaki, annotation data from GenBank files, and
  expression / prediction score from GFF files.
 
-Depends: pyrophosphate-tools
+Recommends: pyrophosphate-tools
 Homepage: http://www-naweb.iaea.org/nafa/ipc/public/d4_pbl_6a.html
 License: not specified
 Pkg-Description: for assembling and searching pyrophosphate sequence data
  Simple tools for assembling and searching high-density picolitre
  pyrophosphate sequence data.
 
-Depends: figaro
+Recommends: figaro
 Homepage: http://amos.sourceforge.net/Figaro/Figaro.html
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: novel vector trimming software
@@ -1630,7 +1630,7 @@ Pkg-Description: novel vector trimming software
  part of the AMOS suite.
 Remark: Genome assembly and large-scale genome alignment (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-Depends: mirbase
+Recommends: mirbase
 Homepage: http://microrna.sanger.ac.uk/
 License: Public Domain
 WNPP: 420938
@@ -1653,7 +1653,7 @@ Pkg-Description: The microRNA sequence database
  It is possible that mirbase will not be a package from the main archive, but
  will be autogenerated as part of a larger data packaging effort.
 
-Depends: elph
+Recommends: elph
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/ELPH/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: motif finder that can find ribosome binding sites, exon splicing enhancers, or regulatory sites
@@ -1671,7 +1671,7 @@ Pkg-Description: motif finder that can find ribosome binding sites, exon splicin
  http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/SeeEse/index.html .
 Remark: Other sequence analysis tools (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/)
 
-X-Depends: repeatfinder
+X-Recommends: repeatfinder
 X-Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/RepeatFinder/
 X-License: Artistic
 X-Pkg-Description: finding repetitive sequences complete and draft genomes
@@ -1685,7 +1685,7 @@ X-Pkg-Description: finding repetitive sequences complete and draft genomes
  Kurtz's REPuter.
 X-Note: Depends from non-distributable code reputer (see below)
 
-X-Depends: reputer
+X-Recommends: reputer
 X-Homepage: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kurtz95reputer.html
 X-License: non-commercial
 X-Pkg-Description: fast computation of maximal repeats in complete genomes
@@ -1694,7 +1694,7 @@ X-Pkg-Description: fast computation of maximal repeats in complete genomes
 X-Note: Code is not redistributable see mailing list discussion at
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2012/07/msg00195.html
 
-Depends: uniprime
+Recommends: uniprime
 Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/uniprime/
 License: GPL-3+
 Responsible: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
@@ -1710,7 +1710,7 @@ Pkg-Description: workflow-based platform for universal primer design
  generates successful cross-species primers that take into account the
  biological aspects of the PCR.
 
-Depends: genetrack
+Recommends: genetrack
 Homepage: http://sysbio.bx.psu.edu/genetrack.html
 License: MIT
 Responsible: Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org>
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ Pkg-Description: genomic data storage and visualization framework
  analyze data obtained via high-throughput rapid sequencing platforms such as
  the 454 and Solexa as well as tiling array data based on various platforms.
 
-Depends: operondb
+Recommends: operondb
 Homepage: http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/cgi-bin/operons/operons.cgi
 License: to be clarified
 Pkg-Description: detect and analyze conserved gene pairs
@@ -1749,7 +1749,7 @@ Remark: Other sequence analysis tools (http://www.cbcb.umd.edu/software/);
  no info about license or downloadable code found, but tried to
  contact authors.
 
-Depends: trnascan-se
+Recommends: trnascan-se
 WNPP: 803542
 
 Comment: If you stumble upon alfresco at
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ Comment: If you stumble upon angler at
  this is probably also not for us except somebody has real interest
  and volunteers to clarify the license.
 
-Depends: cdna-db
+Recommends: cdna-db
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/cdna_db/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: quality-control checking of finished cDNA clone sequences
@@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ Pkg-Description: quality-control checking of finished cDNA clone sequences
  dump cDNA clones sequences (such as those that passed the QC
  checking) from the cdna_db.
 
-Depends: das-proserver
+Recommends: das-proserver
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/proserver/
 License: Same as Perl
 Pkg-Description: lightweight Distributed Annotation System (DAS) server
@@ -1827,7 +1827,7 @@ Pkg-Description: lightweight Distributed Annotation System (DAS) server
  last years we have also seen growing acceptance in the protein
  sequence and structure communities.
 
-Depends: spice
+Recommends: spice
 Homepage: http://www.efamily.org.uk/software/dasclients/spice/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Distributed Annotation System (DAS) client
@@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Distributed Annotation System (DAS) client
  possible to add new annotations to SPICE, and to compare them with
  the already available information.
 
-Depends: decipher
+Recommends: decipher
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/decipher/
 License: To be clarified
 Pkg-Description: tracks duplications and deletions of DNA in patients
@@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ Pkg-Description: tracks duplications and deletions of DNA in patients
  of these conditions. DECIPHER makes use of DAS technology to
  integrate with Ensembl, the world's leading genome browser.
 
-Depends: est-db
+Recommends: est-db
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/est_db/
 License: Artistic
 Pkg-Description: Software suite for expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Software suite for expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing
  available free of charge, and, where possible, similarly
  open-licensed components have been used in its development.
 
-Depends: finex
+Recommends: finex
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/finex/
 License: To be clarified
 Pkg-Description: sequence homology searching
@@ -1895,7 +1895,7 @@ Pkg-Description: sequence homology searching
  Please note FINEX is no longer supported but is available for
  download.
 
-Depends: hexamer
+Recommends: hexamer
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/analysis/hexamer/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: scan DNA sequences to look for likely coding regions
@@ -1922,13 +1922,13 @@ Pkg-Description: scan DNA sequences to look for likely coding regions
     converted to 'c'.
     The output of hexamer is in General Feature Format (GFF) format.
 
-Depends: coot
+Recommends: coot
 
-Depends: r-cran-ape
+Recommends: r-cran-ape
 
-Depends: r-cran-treescape
+Recommends: r-cran-treescape
 
-Depends: caftools
+Recommends: caftools
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/formats/CAF/userguide.shtml
 License: Free for non-commercial purposes
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -1952,7 +1952,7 @@ Remark: The BioLinux distribution http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
  Format) or GAP4. This package includes tools to convert assemblies
  from Newbler's ace format for loading into a gap4 assembly.
 
-Depends: roche454ace2caf
+Recommends: roche454ace2caf
 Homepage: http://genome.imb-jena.de/software/roche454ace2caf/
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@ Remark: The BioLinux distribution http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
  Format) or GAP4. This package includes tools to convert assemblies
  from Newbler's ace format for loading into a gap4 assembly.
 
-Depends: big-blast
+Recommends: big-blast
 Homepage: ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/pathogens/software/artemis/extra/big_blast.pl
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -1990,7 +1990,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Helper tool to run blast on large sequences
  containing the hits.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: blixem
+Recommends: blixem
 Homepage: http://bioinformatics.abc.hu/tothg/biocomp/other/Blixem.html
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Dan Swan <dswan at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@ Pkg-Description: interactive browser of pairwise Blast matches
 Remark: The link to the source archive on the web pages is not valid any more - it might be a problem to obtain the source.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: cap3
+Recommends: cap3
 Homepage: http://genome.cs.mtu.edu/cap/cap3.html
 License: free for governmental agency or a non-profit educational institution
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2032,7 +2032,7 @@ Comment: BioLinux contains a clcworkbench package which is available
  at http://www.clcbio.com/index.php?id=28 but this seems to be only
  "free as in beer" binary download - so this is not for us ...
 
-Depends: coalesce
+Recommends: coalesce
 Homepage: http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/lamarc/coalesce.html
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Nathan S Haigh <n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk>
@@ -2057,7 +2057,7 @@ Comment: BioLinux contains a dendroscope package which is available
  at http://www.dendroscope.org but this project has only a
  "free as in beer" binary download - so this is not for us ...
 
-Depends: estferret
+Recommends: estferret
 Homepage: http://legr.liv.ac.uk/EST-ferret/index.htm
 License: to be clarified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2104,7 +2104,7 @@ Pkg-Description: processes, clusters and annotates EST data
  a MySQL database or web-browsable search tool.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: estscan
+Recommends: estscan
 Homepage: http://estscan.sourceforge.net/
 License: free
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2137,7 +2137,7 @@ Pkg-Description: detect coding regions in DNA sequences, even if of low quality
     EST sequences. Proc Int Conf Intell Syst Mol Biol.138-48.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: fasta
+Recommends: fasta
 Homepage: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/fasta/
 License: no inclusion into commercial product
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2158,7 +2158,7 @@ Pkg-Description: searching DNA and protein databases
  several nearby hits.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: fluctuate
+Recommends: fluctuate
 Homepage: http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/lamarc/fluctuate.html
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Nathan S Haigh <n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk>
@@ -2179,7 +2179,7 @@ Remark: This software is probably outdated
  BioLinux distribution http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html contains
  a package.
 
-Depends: lamarc
+Recommends: lamarc
 Homepage: http://evolution.gs.washington.edu/lamarc/
 License: Apache V2.0
 Responsible: BioLinux - Nathan S Haigh <n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk>
@@ -2196,7 +2196,7 @@ Pkg-Description: estimate population-genetic parameters
  effectively on workstations.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: lucy
+Recommends: lucy
 Homepage: http://rcc.uga.edu/applications/bioinformatics/lucy.html
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Dan Swan <dswan at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2222,7 +2222,7 @@ Pkg-Description: DNA sequence quality and vector trimming tool
  See also the SourceForge page at http://lucy.sourceforge.net/.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: maxd
+Recommends: maxd
 Homepage: http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/microarray/maxd/
 License: Artistic
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2240,9 +2240,9 @@ Pkg-Description: data warehouse and visualisation environment for genomic expres
   maxdSetup - installation management utility
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: mesquite
+Recommends: mesquite
 
-Depends: migrate
+Recommends: migrate
 Homepage: http://popgen.scs.fsu.edu/Migrate-n.html
 License: to be clarified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Nathan S Haigh <n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk>
@@ -2264,7 +2264,7 @@ Pkg-Description: estimation of population sizes and gene flow using the coalesce
  surfaces for all populations and all loci.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: msatfinder
+Recommends: msatfinder
 Homepage: http://www.genomics.ceh.ac.uk/msatfinder/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2279,7 +2279,7 @@ Pkg-Description: identification and characterization of microsatellites in a com
  FASTA, EMBL and Swissprot formats are supported.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: mview
+Recommends: mview
 Homepage: http://bio-mview.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2295,7 +2295,7 @@ Pkg-Description: reformat results of a sequence database search or a multiple al
  is it a general purpose alignment editor.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: oligoarrayaux
+Recommends: oligoarrayaux
 Homepage: http://dinamelt.bioinfo.rpi.edu/OligoArrayAux.php
 License: non-free (fre academical use)
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2322,7 +2322,7 @@ Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
  this and so it might make soem sense to list it here - further
  investigation is needed.
 
-Depends: omegamap
+Recommends: omegamap
 Homepage: http://www.danielwilson.me.uk/software.html
 License: to be clarified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2342,7 +2342,7 @@ Pkg-Description: detecting natural selection and recombination in DNA or RNA seq
   Genetics doi:10.1534/genetics.105.044917.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: partigene
+Recommends: partigene
 Homepage: http://www.nematodes.org/bioinformatics/PartiGene/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2356,7 +2356,7 @@ Pkg-Description: generating partial gemomes
  (putative genes) which we term a partial genome.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: pfaat
+Recommends: pfaat
 Homepage: http://pfaat.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Dan Swan <dswan at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2374,7 +2374,7 @@ Comment: priam
  project has only a "free as in beer" binary download - so this is not
  for us ...
 
-Depends: prot4est
+Recommends: prot4est
 Homepage: http://xyala.cap.ed.ac.uk/bioinformatics/prot4EST/index.shtml
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2386,7 +2386,7 @@ Pkg-Description: EST protein translation suite
  translating ESTs.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: qtlcart
+Recommends: qtlcart
 Homepage: http://statgen.ncsu.edu/qtlcart/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Dan Swan <dswan at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2399,7 +2399,7 @@ Pkg-Description: map quantitative traits using a map of molecular markers
  simulation studies of experiments.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: rbs-finder
+Recommends: rbs-finder
 Homepage: http://www.genomics.jhu.edu/RBSfinder/
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2416,7 +2416,7 @@ Pkg-Description: find ribosome binding sites(RBS)
  http://nbc11.biologie.uni-kl.de/docbook/doc_userguide_bioinformatics_server/chunk/ch01s06.html
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: recombine
+Recommends: recombine
 Homepage: http://evolution.genetics.washington.edu/lamarc/recombine.html
 License: not specified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Nathan S Haigh <n.haigh at sheffield.ac.uk>
@@ -2438,7 +2438,7 @@ Remark: This software might be outdated
  BioLinux distribution http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html contains
  a package.
 
-Depends: splitstree
+Recommends: splitstree
 Homepage: http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/splitstree3/welcome.html
 License: to be clarified
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2470,7 +2470,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Analyzing and Visualizing Evolutionary Data
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
 
-Depends: taverna
+Recommends: taverna
 Homepage: http://taverna.sourceforge.net/
 License: LGPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2495,7 +2495,7 @@ Pkg-Description: designing and executing myGrid workflows for bioinformatics
  collaboration with the open source community.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: taxinspector
+Recommends: taxinspector
 Homepage: http://nebc.nox.ac.uk/projects/taxinspector.html
 License: Artistic + other free licenses
 Responsible: BioLinux - Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ Pkg-Description: browser for entries in the NCBI taxonomy
  and Pedro, but also has a standalone mode.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: tetra
+Recommends: tetra
 Homepage: http://www.megx.net/tetra/
 License: free academic
 Responsible: BioLinux - Stewart Houten <shou at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2524,7 +2524,7 @@ Remark: for the Linux version
  Linux version might happen when REALbasic's Linux IDE is more mature.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: trace2dbest
+Recommends: trace2dbest
 Homepage: http://www.nematodes.org/bioinformatics/trace2dbEST/
 License: GPL
 Responsible: BioLinux - Bela Tiwari <btiwari at ceh.ac.uk>
@@ -2547,11 +2547,11 @@ Pkg-Description: process trace files into dbEST submissions
  (optionaly) BLAST.
 Remark: This package ships with BioLinux http://envgen.nox.ac.uk/biolinux.html
 
-Depends: profit
+Recommends: profit
 WNPP: 525428
 Remark: The authors need to change the license, still.
 
-Depends: obo-edit
+Recommends: obo-edit
 Homepage: http://www.geneontology.org
 X-Comment: Find the license here [1] and [2].
  [1] http://geneontology.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/geneontology/java/oboedit/tags/2.2/release_resources/LICENSE?revision=4863&view=markup
@@ -2564,7 +2564,7 @@ Pkg-Description: editor for biological ontologies
  is the GeneOntology.
 
 
-Depends: jstreeview
+Recommends: jstreeview
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/lh3/treeview.shtml
 License: MIT/X11
 Language: JavaScript
@@ -2578,7 +2578,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Editor for Phylogenetic Trees
  The source can be downloaded at
  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/lh3/download/jstreeview.zip
 
-Depends: phagefinder
+Recommends: phagefinder
 Homepage: http://phage-finder.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Language: Perl
@@ -2599,7 +2599,7 @@ Pkg-Description: heuristic computer program to identify prophage regions within
  will facilitate future studies on the biology and evolution of these prophages by providing
  a level of microbial genome annotation that was previously void.
 
-Depends: compclust
+Recommends: compclust
 Homepage: http://woldlab.caltech.edu/compclust/
 License: MLX (http://woldlab.caltech.edu/compclust/LICENSE.txt)
 Language: Python
@@ -2621,7 +2621,7 @@ Pkg-Description: explore and quantify relationships between clustering results
  maker/line color, etc. These plots are intrinsically linked to the dataset, the
  View and the Labeling classes found within pyMLX.
 
-Depends: treebuilder3d
+Recommends: treebuilder3d
 Homepage: http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo/software/treebuilder
 License: GPL
 Language: Java
@@ -2634,7 +2634,7 @@ Pkg-Description: viewer of SAGE and other types of gene expression data
  analyzing differences in expression profiles of SAGE libraries, serves as an
  alternative to Venn diagrams.
 
-Depends: excavator
+Recommends: excavator
 Homepage: http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/downloads/excavator/
 License: GPL
 Language: Java
@@ -2657,42 +2657,42 @@ Pkg-Description: gene expression data clustering
   * numerical comparison between different clustering results of the same data set
   * runnable on command line as well as through a Java GUI
 
-Depends: treetime
+Recommends: treetime
 Homepage: http://treetime.linhi.com/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Bayesian sampling of phylogenetic trees from molecular data
  TreeTime is controlled by input files in nexus format and does
  bayesian sampling of phylogenetic trees from these data.
 
-Depends: abacas
+Recommends: abacas
 
-Depends: profnet-bval, profnet-chop, profnet-con, profnet-isis, profnet-md, profnet-norsnet, profnet-prof, profnet-snapfun
+Recommends: profnet-bval, profnet-chop, profnet-con, profnet-isis, profnet-md, profnet-norsnet, profnet-prof, profnet-snapfun
 
-Depends: profphd-net, profphd-utils
+Recommends: profphd-net, profphd-utils
 
-Depends: profphd
+Recommends: profphd
 
-Depends: abyss
+Recommends: abyss
 
-Depends: ampliconnoise
+Recommends: ampliconnoise
 
-Depends: disulfinder
+Recommends: disulfinder
 
-Depends: circos, runcircos-gui
+Recommends: circos, runcircos-gui
 
-Depends: populations
+Recommends: populations
 
-Depends: raccoon
+Recommends: raccoon
 
-Depends: librg-utils-perl
+Recommends: librg-utils-perl
 
-Depends: snap
+Recommends: snap
 
-Depends: vcftools
+Recommends: vcftools
 
 Suggests: mobyle, mobyle-programs, mobyle-tutorials
 
-Depends: hilbertvisgui
+Recommends: hilbertvisgui
 Homepage: http://www.bioconductor.org/help/bioc-views/2.7/bioc/html/HilbertVisGUI.html
 License: GPL-3
 Pkg-Description: interactive tool to visualize long vectors of integer data by means of Hilbert curves
@@ -2701,7 +2701,7 @@ Pkg-Description: interactive tool to visualize long vectors of integer data by m
  interesting for giving users some comfort.  Until this software is not yet packaged
  you can follow the hint at the homepage how to use it with R.
 
-Depends: beads
+Recommends: beads
 Homepage: http://pappso.inra.fr/bioinfo/beads
 License: CeCILL
 Pkg-URL: https://launchpad.net/~olivier-langella/+archive/ppa/+packages
@@ -2710,7 +2710,7 @@ Pkg-Description: 2-DE electrophoresis gel image spot detection
  an analogy with beads flowing uphill on the surface of the gel image and
  on the analysis of their paths
 
-Depends: x-tandem-pipeline
+Recommends: x-tandem-pipeline
 Homepage: http://pappso.inra.fr/bioinfo/xtandempipeline/
 License: GPL
 Language: Java
@@ -2735,7 +2735,7 @@ Pkg-Description: peptide/protein identification from MS/MS mass spectra
 
 Suggests: maude
 
-Depends: forge
+Recommends: forge
 Homepage: http://combiol.org/forge/
 License: Apache 2.0
 Pkg-Description: genome assembler for mixed read types
@@ -2759,7 +2759,7 @@ Remark: Competitor to MIRA2 and wgs-assembler
  This package was requested by William Spooner <whs at eaglegenomics.com> as
  a competitor to MIRA2 and wgs-assembler.
 
-Depends: metarep
+Recommends: metarep
 License: MIT
 Homepage: http://www.jcvi.org/metarep/
 Pkg-Description: JCVI Metagenomics Reports
@@ -2779,7 +2779,7 @@ Pkg-Description: JCVI Metagenomics Reports
 X-Comment: Not sure whether this can be distributed at all - asking
  might not harm because I've got a serious hint that this software
  is quite interesting
-X-Depends: megan
+X-Recommends: megan
 X-License: Registriation required
 X-Homepage: http://www-ab.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/software/megan
 X-Pkg-Description: MEtaGenome ANalyzer
@@ -2792,7 +2792,7 @@ X-Pkg-Description: MEtaGenome ANalyzer
  projects. In consequence, there is a dramatic increase in the volume of
  sequence data to be analyzed.
 
-Depends: arachne
+Recommends: arachne
 Homepage: http://www.broadinstitute.org/crd/wiki/index.php/Arachne
 License: free
 Pkg-Description: toolkit for Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly
@@ -2811,7 +2811,7 @@ Pkg-Description: toolkit for Whole Genome Shotgun Assembly
  numerous modules, to analyze, visualize and manipulate assemblies. New
  and improved algorithms are becoming available on a regular basis.
 
-Depends: maker2
+Recommends: maker2
 Homepage: http://www.yandell-lab.org/software/maker.html
 License: GPL / Artistic
 Pkg-Description: annotate genomes and create genome databases
@@ -2831,7 +2831,7 @@ Pkg-Description: annotate genomes and create genome databases
  especially useful for emerging model organism projects with minimal
  bioinformatics expertise and computer resources
 
-Depends: rmblast
+Recommends: rmblast
 Homepage: http://tandem.bu.edu/trf/trf.html
 License: Same as blast2
 Pkg-Description: RepeatMasker compatible version of the standard NCBI BLAST
@@ -2845,7 +2845,7 @@ Pkg-Description: RepeatMasker compatible version of the standard NCBI BLAST
  scoring. Cross_match is Phil Green's seeded smith-waterman search algorithm.
  Support for cross_match-like masklevel filtering.
 
-Depends: e-hive
+Recommends: e-hive
 Homepage: http://www.ensembl.org/info/docs/eHive/index.html
 License: Not specified
 Pkg-Description: distributed processing system based on 'autonomous agents'
@@ -2855,14 +2855,14 @@ Pkg-Description: distributed processing system based on 'autonomous agents'
  to codify any program, algorithm, or parallel processing job control system.
  It is not bound to any processing 'farm' system and can be adapted to any GRID.
 
-Depends: cmap
+Recommends: cmap
 Homepage: http://gmod.org/wiki/CMap
 License: Not specified
 Pkg-Description: view comparisons of genetic and physical maps
  CMap is a web-based tool that allows users to view comparisons of genetic and
  physical maps. The package also includes tools for curating map data.
 
-Depends: gbrowse-syn
+Recommends: gbrowse-syn
 Homepage: http://gmod.org/wiki/GBrowse_syn
 License: Not specified
 Pkg-Description: Generic Synteny Browser
@@ -2875,7 +2875,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Generic Synteny Browser
  later). Working examples can be seen at TAIR and WormBase.
 
 
-Depends: tripal
+Recommends: tripal
 Homepage: http://www.genome.clemson.edu/software/tripal
 License: GPL ( as Drupal a derivative )
 Pkg-Description: collection of Drupal modules for genomic research
@@ -2890,14 +2890,14 @@ Pkg-Description: collection of Drupal modules for genomic research
  databases are projects of the Main Bioinformatics Laboratory at Washington
  State University
 
-Depends: genemark
+Recommends: genemark
 Homepage: http://exon.biology.gatech.edu/
 License: Academic License Agreement
 Pkg-Description: family of gene prediction programs
  A family of gene prediction programs developed at Georgia Institute of
  Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
 
-Depends: python-orange
+Recommends: python-orange
 License: GPLv3
 Homepage: http://orange.biolab.si/
 Pkg-URL: http://orange.biolab.si/debian/
@@ -2908,7 +2908,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Data mining framework
  techniques. It can be used through a nice and intuitive user interface
  or, for more advanced users, as a module for Python programming language.
 
-Depends: tigr-glimmer-mg
+Recommends: tigr-glimmer-mg
 
 Comment: Several related R packages are listed at CRAN:
          http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Genetics.html
diff --git a/tasks/bio-dev b/tasks/bio-dev
index a62139e..11e6bd6 100644
--- a/tasks/bio-dev
+++ b/tasks/bio-dev
@@ -4,54 +4,54 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for development of bioinformatics applications
  This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be helpful
  for development of applications for biological research.
 
-Depends: bioperl, bioperl-run, libncbi6-dev
+Recommends: bioperl, bioperl-run, libncbi6-dev
 
-Depends: mcl
+Recommends: mcl
 X-Category: Analysis of network structure
 X-Importance: Clustering of graphs
 
-Depends: biosquid
+Recommends: biosquid
 
-Depends: libvibrant6-dev
+Recommends: libvibrant6-dev
 
-Depends: python3-biopython | python-biopython
+Recommends: python3-biopython | python-biopython
 
 Suggests: python3-biopython-sql | python-biopython-sql, python-biopython-doc
 
-Depends: python-cogent
+Recommends: python-cogent
 
-Depends: python-screed
+Recommends: python-screed
 
-Depends: python3-cutadapt | python-cutadapt
+Recommends: python3-cutadapt | python-cutadapt
 
-Depends: ruby-bio
+Recommends: ruby-bio
 
-Depends: libbiojava-java, libbiojava4-java
+Recommends: libbiojava-java, libbiojava4-java
 
-Depends: libgenome-1.3-dev, libmuscle-3.7-dev, libmems-1.6-dev
+Recommends: libgenome-1.3-dev, libmuscle-3.7-dev, libmems-1.6-dev
 
-Depends: libhtsjdk-java
+Recommends: libhtsjdk-java
 
-Depends: libai-fann-perl
+Recommends: libai-fann-perl
 
-Depends: libbio-mage-perl
+Recommends: libbio-mage-perl
 Why: Useful for the submission of microarray data to public repositories.
 
-Depends: libnhgri-blastall-perl
+Recommends: libnhgri-blastall-perl
 
-Depends: libtfbs-perl
+Recommends: libtfbs-perl
 
-Depends: libfreecontact-dev, libfreecontact-perl
+Recommends: libfreecontact-dev, libfreecontact-perl
 
 Suggests: libfreecontact-doc
 
-Depends: libgo-perl
+Recommends: libgo-perl
 
-Depends: r-cran-genetics, r-cran-haplo.stats, r-cran-phylobase
+Recommends: r-cran-genetics, r-cran-haplo.stats, r-cran-phylobase
 
-Depends: r-cran-rncl, r-cran-rnexml
+Recommends: r-cran-rncl, r-cran-rnexml
 
-Depends: octave-bioinfo
+Recommends: octave-bioinfo
 Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/bioinfo/
 Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-octave/octave-bioinfo.git
 Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-octave/octave-bioinfo.git
@@ -68,40 +68,40 @@ Pkg-Description: bioinformatic functions for Octave
 Remark: Not maintained upstream, see ROM: #620648
 Pkg-URL: http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20100201T042505Z/pool/main/o/octave-bioinfo/octave-bioinfo_0.1.2-2.dsc
 
-Depends: libbio-graphics-perl, libbio-coordinate-perl
+Recommends: libbio-graphics-perl, libbio-coordinate-perl
 
-Depends: libbio-primerdesigner-perl
+Recommends: libbio-primerdesigner-perl
 
-Depends: libace-perl
+Recommends: libace-perl
 
-Depends: libbiococoa-dev
+Recommends: libbiococoa-dev
 
-Depends: libstaden-read-dev
+Recommends: libstaden-read-dev
 
-Depends: libsrf-dev
+Recommends: libsrf-dev
 
-Depends: libzerg0-dev, libzerg-perl
+Recommends: libzerg0-dev, libzerg-perl
 
-Depends: librg-reprof-bundle-perl
+Recommends: librg-reprof-bundle-perl
 
-Depends: python-corepywrap, librcsb-core-wrapper0-dev
+Recommends: python-corepywrap, librcsb-core-wrapper0-dev
 
-Depends: libsbml5-dev, sbmltoolbox
+Recommends: libsbml5-dev, sbmltoolbox
 
 Suggests: r-cran-rocr
 Why: Even if this package is not directly connected to biology it is maintained by
      Debian Med team and should be in our focus and it is not wrong to suggest this
      package for development of biological applications based on R
 
-Depends: seqan-dev
+Recommends: seqan-dev
 
-Depends: libbio-mage-utils-perl
+Recommends: libbio-mage-utils-perl
 
-Depends: libchado-perl
+Recommends: libchado-perl
 
-Depends: libpal-java
+Recommends: libpal-java
 
-Depends: libjebl2-java
+Recommends: libjebl2-java
 Remark: Fork from jebl
  This is a branch of the original JEBL on
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/jebl/ to develop a new API and class
@@ -136,87 +136,87 @@ Suggests: r-cran-rentrez
 
 Suggests: ruby-rgfa
 
-Depends: r-bioc-biobase
+Recommends: r-bioc-biobase
 Remark: This is a part of Bioconductor project
  A nice overview about all modules of BioDonductor is given at
  http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/
 
-Depends: libffindex0-dev
+Recommends: libffindex0-dev
 
-Depends: librostlab3-dev
+Recommends: librostlab3-dev
 
 Suggests: librostlab-doc
 
-Depends: librostlab-blast0-dev
+Recommends: librostlab-blast0-dev
 
 Suggests: librostlab-blast-doc
 
-Depends: librg-blast-parser-perl
+Recommends: librg-blast-parser-perl
 
-Depends: libsort-key-top-perl
+Recommends: libsort-key-top-perl
 
-Depends: libhmsbeagle-dev
+Recommends: libhmsbeagle-dev
 
-Depends: libforester-java
+Recommends: libforester-java
 
 X-Mark: Prospective packages are starting here.
 
 X-Mark: Packages in Vcs - Information about these is queried from UDD as well
 
-Depends: libbambamc-dev
+Recommends: libbambamc-dev
 
-Depends: libbamtools-dev
+Recommends: libbamtools-dev
 
-Depends: libpbbam-dev
+Recommends: libpbbam-dev
 
-Depends: libbio-das-lite-perl
+Recommends: libbio-das-lite-perl
 
-Depends: python-mmtk
+Recommends: python-mmtk
 Language: C, Python
 
-Depends: libopenms-dev
+Recommends: libopenms-dev
 
-Depends: libgenometools0-dev
+Recommends: libgenometools0-dev
 
-Depends: librdp-taxonomy-tree-java
+Recommends: librdp-taxonomy-tree-java
 
-Depends: python-biom-format
+Recommends: python-biom-format
 
-Depends: python-rdkit
+Recommends: python-rdkit
 
 Suggests: libswarm2-dev
 
-Depends: libgenome-perl, libgenome-model-tools-music-perl
+Recommends: libgenome-perl, libgenome-model-tools-music-perl
 
-Depends: pyfai
+Recommends: pyfai
 
-Depends: libhts-dev
+Recommends: libhts-dev
 
-Depends: python-htseq
+Recommends: python-htseq
 
-Depends: python3-intervaltree-bio | python-intervaltree-bio
+Recommends: python3-intervaltree-bio | python-intervaltree-bio
 
-Depends: python3-csb | python-csb
+Recommends: python3-csb | python-csb
 
-Depends: python3-misopy | python-misopy
+Recommends: python3-misopy | python-misopy
 
-Depends: python-freecontact
+Recommends: python-freecontact
 
-Depends: python3-pymummer
+Recommends: python3-pymummer
 
 Suggests: libgtextutils-dev
 
-Depends: libkmer-dev
+Recommends: libkmer-dev
 
-Depends: libsnp-sites1-dev
+Recommends: libsnp-sites1-dev
 
-Depends: libssm-dev
+Recommends: libssm-dev
 
-Depends: librelion-dev
+Recommends: librelion-dev
 
-Depends: libdivsufsort-dev
+Recommends: libdivsufsort-dev
 
-Depends: bioclipse
+Recommends: bioclipse
 Homepage: http://www.bioclipse.net/
 License: Eclipse Public License (EPL) + exception
 Pkg-Description: platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on Eclipse
@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@ Pkg-Description: platform for chemo- and bioinformatics based on Eclipse
  followed on the Bioclipse Wiki where we document the progress and
  ideas of the development on a daily basis.
 
-Depends: libgff-dev
+Recommends: libgff-dev
 
-Depends: libgff-perl
+Recommends: libgff-perl
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Software/formats/GFF/
 Responsible: David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com>
 License: GPL-1+
@@ -250,35 +250,35 @@ Pkg-Description: Perl bindings for GFF Annotation Protocol
  .
  This package provides a Perl module to use GFF objects.
 
-Depends: python-pysam
+Recommends: python-pysam
 
-Depends: python-pbcore, python-pbh5tools
+Recommends: python-pbcore, python-pbh5tools
 
-Depends: python-cobra
+Recommends: python-cobra
 
-Depends: libtabixpp-dev
+Recommends: libtabixpp-dev
 
-Depends: python3-ruffus | python-ruffus
+Recommends: python3-ruffus | python-ruffus
 
-Depends: python3-hyphy | python-hyphy
+Recommends: python3-hyphy | python-hyphy
 
-Depends: python3-dendropy | python-dendropy
+Recommends: python3-dendropy | python-dendropy
 
-Depends: python3-skbio
+Recommends: python3-skbio
 
-Depends: python3-pbconsensuscore | python-pbconsensuscore
+Recommends: python3-pbconsensuscore | python-pbconsensuscore
 
-Depends: python3-consensuscore2 | python-consensuscore2, libconsensuscore-dev
+Recommends: python3-consensuscore2 | python-consensuscore2, libconsensuscore-dev
 
-Depends: python-pbcommand
+Recommends: python-pbcommand
 
-Depends: python3-pyvcf | python-pyvcf
+Recommends: python3-pyvcf | python-pyvcf
 
-Depends: python3-pyfaidx | python-pyfaidx
+Recommends: python3-pyfaidx | python-pyfaidx
 
-Depends: python-kineticstools
+Recommends: python-kineticstools
 
-Depends: python3-pyfasta | python-pyfasta
+Recommends: python3-pyfasta | python-pyfasta
 Remark: Testsuite uncovers problems and code is not actively maintained
  The upstream author of python-pyfasta confirmed that he stopped
  the development and recommends python-pyfaidx instead.  So the
@@ -287,25 +287,25 @@ Remark: Testsuite uncovers problems and code is not actively maintained
 
 Suggests: libbam-dev
 
-Depends: libqes-dev
+Recommends: libqes-dev
 
-Depends: libfast5-dev, python3-fast5 | python-fast5
+Recommends: libfast5-dev, python3-fast5 | python-fast5
 
-Depends: libpbseq-dev, libpbdata-dev, libpbihdf-dev, libblasr-dev
+Recommends: libpbseq-dev, libpbdata-dev, libpbihdf-dev, libblasr-dev
 
 Suggests: libpbcopper-dev
 
-Depends: libminimap-dev
+Recommends: libminimap-dev
 
-Depends: libncl-dev
+Recommends: libncl-dev
 
-Depends: libngs-sdk-dev, libngs-java, python3-ngs | python-ngs, libncbi-vdb-dev
+Recommends: libngs-sdk-dev, libngs-java, python3-ngs | python-ngs, libncbi-vdb-dev
 
-Depends: libqcpp-dev
+Recommends: libqcpp-dev
 
-Depends: libbpp-core-dev, libbpp-phyl-dev, libbpp-phyl-omics-dev, libbpp-popgen-dev, libbpp-qt-dev, libbpp-raa-dev, libbpp-seq-dev, libbpp-seq-omics-dev
+Recommends: libbpp-core-dev, libbpp-phyl-dev, libbpp-phyl-omics-dev, libbpp-popgen-dev, libbpp-qt-dev, libbpp-raa-dev, libbpp-seq-dev, libbpp-seq-omics-dev
 
-Depends: octace-bioinfo
+Recommends: octace-bioinfo
 Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/bioinfo/index.html
 License: GPL-2+
 Pkg-Description: Bioinformatics manipulation for Octave
@@ -320,53 +320,53 @@ Pkg-Description: Bioinformatics manipulation for Octave
   seqreverse
     Reverse a nucleotide sequence.
 
-Depends: ruby-crb-blast
+Recommends: ruby-crb-blast
 
-Depends: libsmithwaterman-dev
+Recommends: libsmithwaterman-dev
 
-Depends: libfastahack-dev
+Recommends: libfastahack-dev
 
-Depends: mgltools-networkeditor, mgltools-vision, mgltools-pybabel
+Recommends: mgltools-networkeditor, mgltools-vision, mgltools-pybabel
 
 Suggests: libdisorder-dev
 
-Depends: libssw-dev, libssw-java
+Recommends: libssw-dev, libssw-java
 
-Depends: libfml-dev
+Recommends: libfml-dev
 
-Depends: libgkarrays-dev
+Recommends: libgkarrays-dev
 
-Depends: libjloda-java
+Recommends: libjloda-java
 
-Depends: libvcflib-dev
+Recommends: libvcflib-dev
 
-Depends: libswiss-perl
+Recommends: libswiss-perl
 
-Depends: python3-pybedtools
+Recommends: python3-pybedtools
 
-Depends: python3-gffutils
+Recommends: python3-gffutils
 WNPP: 851488
 
-Depends: python3-bx | python-bx
+Recommends: python3-bx | python-bx
 WNPP: 851242
 
-Depends: python3-bd2k | python-bd2k
+Recommends: python3-bd2k | python-bd2k
 WNPP: 851341
 
-Depends: libbio-eutilities-perl
+Recommends: libbio-eutilities-perl
 
-Depends: libseqlib-dev
+Recommends: libseqlib-dev
 
-Depends: libroadrunner-dev, python-roadrunner
+Recommends: libroadrunner-dev, python-roadrunner
 
-Depends: python3-biotools | python-biotools
+Recommends: python3-biotools | python-biotools
 
-Depends: bio-tradis
+Recommends: bio-tradis
 
-Depends: python3-biomaj3 | python-biomaj3
+Recommends: python3-biomaj3 | python-biomaj3
 
 Suggests: python-pyflow
 
 Suggests: r-cran-natserv
 
-Depends: libbiod-dev
+Recommends: libbiod-dev
diff --git a/tasks/bio-ngs b/tasks/bio-ngs
index 886fd35..6b721d0 100644
--- a/tasks/bio-ngs
+++ b/tasks/bio-ngs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Description: Debian Med bioinformatics applications usable in Next Generation Se
 Comment: Do not build a metapackage because it is not clear in how far this set of
  packages is complete regarding NGS.
 
-Depends:
+Recommends:
 	bedtools,
 	bwa,
 	bowtie,
@@ -31,33 +31,33 @@ Depends:
 	vcftools,
 	velvet
 
-Depends: sprai
+Recommends: sprai
 
-Depends: mothur
+Recommends: mothur
 
-Depends: qiime
+Recommends: qiime
 
-Depends: cufflinks
+Recommends: cufflinks
 
-Depends: hinge
+Recommends: hinge
 
-Depends: mira-assembler
+Recommends: mira-assembler
 
 X-Mark: Prospective packages are starting here.
 
-Depends: kissplice
+Recommends: kissplice
 
 X-Mark: Packages in Vcs - Information about these is queried from UDD as well
 
-Depends: scoary
+Recommends: scoary
 
-Depends: umap
+Recommends: umap
 
-Depends: dindel
+Recommends: dindel
 
-Depends: mosaik-aligner
+Recommends: mosaik-aligner
 
-Depends: forge
+Recommends: forge
 Homepage: http://combiol.org/forge/
 License: Apache 2.0
 Pkg-Description: genome assembler for mixed read types
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@ Remark: Competitor to MIRA2 and wgs-assembler
  This package was requested by William Spooner <whs at eaglegenomics.com> as
  a competitor to MIRA2 and wgs-assembler.
 
-Depends: uc-echo
+Recommends: uc-echo
 
-Depends: annovar
+Recommends: annovar
 Homepage: http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/
 License: Open Source for non-profit
 Pkg-Description: annotate genetic variants detected from diverse genomes
diff --git a/tasks/bio-phylogeny b/tasks/bio-phylogeny
index b3aac2c..a608e90 100644
--- a/tasks/bio-phylogeny
+++ b/tasks/bio-phylogeny
@@ -11,17 +11,17 @@ Comment: Do not build a metapackage because it is not clear in how far this set
 
 X-Begin-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
 
-Depends: altree
+Recommends: altree
 
-Depends: fastdnaml, njplot, tree-puzzle | tree-ppuzzle
+Recommends: fastdnaml, njplot, tree-puzzle | tree-ppuzzle
 
-Depends: probalign
+Recommends: probalign
 
-Depends: treeviewx
+Recommends: treeviewx
 
 X-End-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
 
-Depends:     phylip
+Recommends:     phylip
 Why:         Phylogenetic analysis (Non-free, thus only suggested).
 
 X-Comment: treetool is removed from Debian because it is not maintained upstream since
@@ -29,66 +29,66 @@ X-Comment: treetool is removed from Debian because it is not maintained upstream
 
 X-Begin-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
 
-Depends:     muscle
+Recommends:     muscle
 
-Depends: t-coffee
+Recommends: t-coffee
 
-Depends: kalign
+Recommends: kalign
 
-Depends: hmmer
+Recommends: hmmer
 
-Depends: exonerate
+Recommends: exonerate
 
-Depends: dialign
+Recommends: dialign
 
-Depends: dialign-tx
+Recommends: dialign-tx
 
-Depends: poa
+Recommends: poa
 
-Depends: probcons
+Recommends: probcons
 
-Depends: proda
+Recommends: proda
 
-Depends: seaview
+Recommends: seaview
 
-Depends: sigma-align
+Recommends: sigma-align
 
-Depends: gmap
+Recommends: gmap
 
-Depends:     clustalx
+Recommends:     clustalx
 Why:         Sequence alignments and related programs (Non-free, thus only suggested).
 
-Depends: clustalw
+Recommends: clustalw
 
-Depends: mustang
+Recommends: mustang
 
 X-End-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Models of nucleotide/amino acid evolution
 
-Depends: phyml
+Recommends: phyml
 
 X-End-Category: Models of nucleotide/amino acid evolution
 
-Depends: beast-mcmc
+Recommends: beast-mcmc
 
-Depends: tm-align
+Recommends: tm-align
 
-Depends: mrbayes
+Recommends: mrbayes
 
-Depends: figtree
+Recommends: figtree
 
-Depends: populations
+Recommends: populations
 
 X-Mark: Packages in Vcs - Information about these is queried from UDD as well
 
-Depends: proalign
+Recommends: proalign
 
-Depends: prottest
+Recommends: prottest
 
-Depends: treeview
+Recommends: treeview
 
-Depends: phylowin
+Recommends: phylowin
 Homepage: http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/software/phylowin.html
 WNPP: 395840
 License: unknown
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Remark: Issuer of previous ITP said:
  list.
 
 
-Depends: gbioseq
+Recommends: gbioseq
 Homepage: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=94
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: DNA sequence editor for Linux
@@ -122,14 +122,14 @@ Pkg-Description: DNA sequence editor for Linux
  The goal is to provide an easy to use software to edit DNA sequences under
  Linux, Windows, MacOsX, using GTK C# (Mono).
 
-Depends: phpphylotree
+Recommends: phpphylotree
 Homepage: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=372
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: draw phylogenetic trees
  PhpPhylotree is a web application that is able to draw phylogenetic trees.
  It produces an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphic) file from phylip/newick tree files.
 
-Depends: jstreeview
+Recommends: jstreeview
 Homepage: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/lh3/treeview.shtml
 License: MIT/X11
 Language: JavaScript
@@ -143,20 +143,20 @@ Pkg-Description: Editor for Phylogenetic Trees
  The source can be downloaded at
  http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/lh3/download/jstreeview.zip
 
-Depends: treetime
+Recommends: treetime
 Homepage: http://treetime.linhi.com/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Bayesian sampling of phylogenetic trees from molecular data
  TreeTime is controlled by input files in nexus format and does
  bayesian sampling of phylogenetic trees from these data.
 
-Depends: jmodeltest
+Recommends: jmodeltest
 
-Depends: forester
+Recommends: forester
 
-Depends: patristic
+Recommends: patristic
 Language: Java
 
-Depends: spread-phy
+Recommends: spread-phy
 
-Depends: iqtree
+Recommends: iqtree
diff --git a/tasks/cloud b/tasks/cloud
index 39cdbd8..6fbb755 100644
--- a/tasks/cloud
+++ b/tasks/cloud
@@ -6,19 +6,19 @@ Description: Debian Med bioinformatics applications usable in cloud computing
  in cloud computing clusters, where space can be limited.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	altree, clearcut, fastdnaml, fasttree, parsinsert, phyml, phyutility,
 	prime-phylo, mrbayes, tree-puzzle | tree-ppuzzle
 X-End-Category: Phylogenetic analysis
 
 X-Begin-Category: Genetics and genomics
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	alien-hunter, bagpipe, fastlink, loki, gasic, genometools, plink,
 	probabel, r-cran-qtl, r-other-valdar-bagphenotype.library, r-other-mott-happy.hbrem
 X-End-Category: Genetics
 
 X-Begin-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	amap-align, blast2, biosquid, boxshade, cassiopee, cdbfasta, cd-hit,
 	clustalo, clustalw, conservation-code, dialign, dialign-tx,
 	emboss, embassy-domalign, embassy-domainatrix, embassy-domsearch,
@@ -29,54 +29,54 @@ Depends: \
 X-End-Category: Sequence alignments and related programs.
 
 X-Begin-Category: High throughput sequencing
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	bamtools, bedtools, fastx-toolkit, flexbar, picard-tools, samtools,
 	tabix, vcftools
 Comment: Processing
 
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	anfo, cufflinks, bowtie, bowtie2, bwa, last-align, maq, perm, tophat, smalt,
 	soapdenovo, soapdenovo2
 Comment: Aligners
 
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	abyss, mapsembler2, idba, minia, mira-assembler, ssake, velvet
 Comment: Assembly
 
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	ampliconnoise, arden, fastqc
 Comment: Filtering and QC
 
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	discosnp, dnaclust, fitgcp, giira, grinder, kissplice, macs, mothur,
 	paraclu, r-bioc-hilbertvis, sra-toolkit
 Comment: Other
 X-End-Category: High throughput sequencing
 
 X-Begin-Category: Analysis of RNA sequences.
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	aragorn, infernal, rnahybrid, rtax
 X-End-Category: Analysis of RNA sequences.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	autodock, autodock-vina, autogrid, concavity, dssp, freecontact,
 	gromacs, hhsuite, mustang, pdb2pqr, raster3d, theseus
 Comment: non-free
 X-End-Category: Molecular modelling and molecular dynamics
 
 X-Begin-Category: Tools for the molecular biologist.
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	melting, mipe, ncbi-epcr, primer3
 Comment: Oligonucleotides and PCR
 
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	acedb-other, disulfinder, ncbi-tools-bin, ncoils, python-cogent,
 	readseq, tigr-glimmer, seqan-apps, staden-io-lib-utils
 X-End-Category: Tools for the molecular biologist.
 
 X-Begin-Category: Others
-Depends: \
+Recommends: \
 	aevol, biomaj, bioperl, bioperl-run, cain, clonalframe, circos, datamash, filo,
 	prodigal, python-biopython, python3-biopython, qiime, r-bioc-edger,
 	r-cran-pvclust, r-cran-vegan
diff --git a/tasks/data b/tasks/data
index 081d009..34e6058 100644
--- a/tasks/data
+++ b/tasks/data
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ Description: Debian Med drug databases
  applications. The database can be accessed by any EMR using
  the application.
 
-Depends: freediams, freemedforms-freedata
+Recommends: freediams, freemedforms-freedata
 
-Depends: python-hl7
+Recommends: python-hl7
 
 Suggests: sleepyhead
 WNPP: 780060
 
-Depends: drugref.org
+Recommends: drugref.org
 Homepage: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/php-drugref/
 License: GPL2+
 Pkg-Description: pharmaceutical reference database
diff --git a/tasks/dental b/tasks/dental
index c5b728d..b1f9701 100644
--- a/tasks/dental
+++ b/tasks/dental
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ Description: Debian Med packages related to dental practice
  This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software
  which might be helpful for dentists to manage their practice.
 
-Depends: openmolar
+Recommends: openmolar
 
-Depends: imagetooth
+Recommends: imagetooth
 
-Depends: entangle
+Recommends: entangle
diff --git a/tasks/epi b/tasks/epi
index 3aa6675..83904a0 100644
--- a/tasks/epi
+++ b/tasks/epi
@@ -6,39 +6,39 @@ Description: Debian Med epidemiology related packages
  "A short introduction to R for Epidemiology" at
  http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/%7Ebxc/Epi/R-intro.pdf
 
-Depends: epigrass
+Recommends: epigrass
 
 Suggests: r-cran-msm
 
-Depends: r-cran-epibasix
+Recommends: r-cran-epibasix
 
-Depends: r-cran-epitools
+Recommends: r-cran-epitools
 X-Comment: See also: http://sites.google.com/site/medepi/epitools
 
-Depends: r-cran-surveillance
+Recommends: r-cran-surveillance
 
-Depends: r-cran-epi
+Recommends: r-cran-epi
 
-Depends: r-cran-diagnosismed, r-cran-epicalc, r-cran-epir
+Recommends: r-cran-diagnosismed, r-cran-epicalc, r-cran-epir
 
-Depends: r-cran-seroincidence
+Recommends: r-cran-seroincidence
 X-Comment: Needs to wait for processing of r-cran-knitr
 
 Suggests: r-cran-cmprsk
 
-Depends: ushahidi
+Recommends: ushahidi
 
 Suggests: shiny-server
 
-Depends: r-cran-lexrankr
+Recommends: r-cran-lexrankr
 
-Depends: python-treetime
+Recommends: python-treetime
 
-Depends: netepi-analysis
+Recommends: netepi-analysis
 Remark: See also: http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/data/2123 and
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB07103.pdf
 
-Depends: netepi-collection
+Recommends: netepi-collection
 Remark: See also: http://www.stockholmchallenge.se/data/2123 and
  http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=NB07103.pdf
 
diff --git a/tasks/his b/tasks/his
index 6b43ad3..fa6559c 100644
--- a/tasks/his
+++ b/tasks/his
@@ -6,18 +6,18 @@ Description: Debian Med suggestions for Hospital Information Systems
  only preconditions are finished but hopefully helpful in hospitals
  anyway.
 
-Depends: care2x
+Recommends: care2x
 Pkg-URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/care2002/files/CARE2X/Care2X%202.6%20alpha/
 
-Depends: fis-gtm
+Recommends: fis-gtm
 
-Depends: vista-foia
+Recommends: vista-foia
 
-Depends: ewd-920
+Recommends: ewd-920
 
-Depends: orthanc-wsi
+Recommends: orthanc-wsi
 
-Depends: tryton-modules-health
+Recommends: tryton-modules-health
 Pkg-URL: http://debian.tryton.org/debian/pool/main/t/tryton-modules-health/
 Remark: Docker instance and apt repository
  GNUHealth is packaged by the Debian Tryton Maintainers.  Here you can
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Remark: Docker instance and apt repository
  containing
   deb http://debian.tryton.org/debian/ <debian-dist>-<tryton-series> main
 
-Depends: openmaxims
+Recommends: openmaxims
 Homepage: https://github.com/IMS-MAXIMS/openMAXIMS
 License: AGPL
 Pkg-Description: patient administration system and electronic patient record
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Pkg-Description: patient administration system and electronic patient record
  with third-party systems.
 Comment: see http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/22883/krankenhaus-in-grossbritannien-nutzt-open-source-fuer-krankenakten.html
 
-Depends: world-vista
+Recommends: world-vista
 Homepage: http://worldvista.org/World_VistA_EHR
 License: GPL v2
 Responsible: K.S. Bhaskar <ks.bhaskar at fnis.com>
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Pkg-Description: repackage and extended version of VistA produced by WorldVistA
  electronic data to other entities such as laboratories), and security
  (ability to keep patients' information safe).
 
-Depends: ipath
+Recommends: ipath
 Homepage: http://ipath.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: telemedicine platform
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Pkg-Description: telemedicine platform
  case disucssions, virtual staff meetings, etc. It was originally developed at University
  of Basel where a public iPath server for projects with developing countries is hosted.
 
-Depends: patientos
+Recommends: patientos
 Homepage: http://www.patientos.org/
 License: GPL v3
 Language: Java
@@ -115,10 +115,10 @@ Pkg-Description: Healthcare Information System (HIS) for small hospitals and cli
   * Add-ons are available to add new features or functionality including plugins, custom forms, themes, and translations
   * Supports multiple languages
 
-Depends: openmrs
+Recommends: openmrs
 Pkg-URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/o/openmrs/
 
-Depends: hkma-cms
+Recommends: hkma-cms
 Homepage: http://www.hkma.org/taoyuan/
 License: free
 Pkg-Description: clinic management system
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ Pkg-Description: clinic management system
  (OGCIO) under the Sector-specific Programme (SSP) for the Medical and
  Health Sector, and was developed by Mobigator Technology Group.
 
-Depends: oscar-mcmaster
+Recommends: oscar-mcmaster
 License: to be clarified
 Homepage: http://oscarmanual.org
 Pkg-URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oscarmcmaster/files/
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Oscar (Web) A medical web application for electronic medical re
   * Diagnostic imaging results and consultation notes can be scanned
     into the EMR where required
 
-Depends: openeyes
+Recommends: openeyes
 Homepage: http://www.openeyes.org.uk
 License: GPLv3
 Pkg-Description: ophthalmology electronic patient record system
diff --git a/tasks/imaging b/tasks/imaging
index 707c7dd..b1e0863 100644
--- a/tasks/imaging
+++ b/tasks/imaging
@@ -11,23 +11,23 @@ Description: Debian Med image processing and visualization packages
  - either from a graphical user interface, the command  line, or implemented in
  workflows.
 
-Depends: amide, ctsim, ctn, dicomnifti, imagej, minc-tools, medcon, python-nibabel, python-dicom, xmedcon, dcmtk
+Recommends: amide, ctsim, ctn, dicomnifti, imagej, minc-tools, medcon, python-nibabel, python-dicom, xmedcon, dcmtk
 
 Suggests: imagemagick, pngquant, imview, trimage
 
-Depends: nifti-bin
+Recommends: nifti-bin
 
-Depends: aeskulap
+Recommends: aeskulap
 
-Depends: fsl
+Recommends: fsl
 
-Depends: fslview
+Recommends: fslview
 Remark: fslview was removed from Debian (see #647810)
  The bug log (http://bugs.debian.org/647810) explains the reasons for
  the removal.  The maintainers did never respond whether they plan
  to bring back a more recent version of this package
 
-Depends: via-bin
+Recommends: via-bin
 Pkg-URL: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/via/2.0.4-2.1/
 WNPP: 732129
 Comment: removed from Debian and only available in Wheezy or snapshot.debian.org
@@ -35,18 +35,18 @@ Comment: removed from Debian and only available in Wheezy or snapshot.debian.org
  transition.  A very similar library is provided by the mia package
  (see bug #732129).
 
-Depends: gwyddion
+Recommends: gwyddion
 
-Depends: sofa-apps
+Recommends: sofa-apps
 
-Depends: python-mvpa2
+Recommends: python-mvpa2
 Why: Suggested by maintainer Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com>
 
-Depends: python-nipy
+Recommends: python-nipy
 Why: Although listed in -dev task, it also has a strong focus on interactive
  data analysis.
 
-Depends: python-nipype
+Recommends: python-nipype
 Why: Although listed in -dev task, it also has a strong focus on interactive
  data analysis.
 
@@ -54,44 +54,44 @@ Recommends: python-nitime
 Why: Although listed in -dev task, it also has a strong focus on interactive
  data analysis.
 
-Depends: caret
+Recommends: caret
 
-Depends: libgdcm-tools
+Recommends: libgdcm-tools
 
-Depends: slicer
+Recommends: slicer
 Remark: slicer was removed from Debian (see #644352)
  The bug log (http://bugs.debian.org/644352) explains the reasons for
  the removal and the conditions when a new version might be back
 
-Depends: lipsia
+Recommends: lipsia
 Remark: lipsia was removed from Debian (see #674295)
  The bug log (http://bugs.debian.org/674295) explains the reasons for
  the removal and the conditions when a new version might be back
 
-Depends: dicom3tools
+Recommends: dicom3tools
 
-Depends: imagevis3d
+Recommends: imagevis3d
 
-Depends: odin
+Recommends: odin
 Published-Title: ODIN: Object-oriented development interface for NMR
 Published-Authors: Thies H. Jochimsen, Michael von Mengershausen
 Published-In: Journal of Magnetic Resonance 170:67-78
 Published-Year: 2004
 Published-URL: http://od1n.sourceforge.net/odin.pdf
 
-Depends: dicomscope
+Recommends: dicomscope
 
-Depends: pixelmed-apps
+Recommends: pixelmed-apps
 
-Depends: vmtk
+Recommends: vmtk
 
-Depends: gofigure2
+Recommends: gofigure2
 
-Depends: ginkgocadx
+Recommends: ginkgocadx
 
-Depends: openslide-tools
+Recommends: openslide-tools
 
-Depends: volview
+Recommends: volview
 Pkg-URL: http://snapshot.debian.org/package/volview/3.4%2Bdfsg-1/
 WNPP: 745023
 Comment: removed from Debian and only available in Wheezy or snapshot.debian.org
@@ -99,29 +99,29 @@ Comment: removed from Debian and only available in Wheezy or snapshot.debian.org
  is currently abandoned upstream. Apparently VolViewNinja would be the
  successor (see bug #745023).
 
-Depends: conquest-common
+Recommends: conquest-common
 
 Suggests: conquest-dbase, conquest-mysql, conquest-postgres, conquest-sqlite
 
 Suggests: paraview
 
-Depends: camitk-imp
+Recommends: camitk-imp
 
-Depends: crea
+Recommends: crea
 
-Depends: orthanc
+Recommends: orthanc
 
 Suggests: orthanc-webviewer, orthanc-dicomweb, orthanc-imagej, orthanc-postgresql
 
-Depends: teem-apps
+Recommends: teem-apps
 
-Depends: bioimagesuite
+Recommends: bioimagesuite
 Remark: Contact to upstream
  There is a forum at BioImage Suite site for discussion of
  compiling it from source and packaging issues at
  http://research.yale.edu/bioimagesuite/forum/index.php?board=12.0
 
-Depends: drjekyll
+Recommends: drjekyll
 Homepage: http://drjekyll.sourceforge.net
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: interactive voxel editor for viewing and editing three-dimensional images
@@ -132,14 +132,14 @@ Pkg-Description: interactive voxel editor for viewing and editing three-dimensio
  a final polishing process.
 Why: Hint given by Petter Reinholdtsen
 
-Depends: libdcm4che-java
+Recommends: libdcm4che-java
 Remark: Needs jai_imageio as prerequsite
  Building the package using the packaging code in SVN works up to a point
  were jai_imageio.jar is required.  For the status of packaging this
  prerequisite see the Debian Java mailing list at
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2011/04/msg00045.html
 
-Depends: dcm4chee
+Recommends: dcm4chee
 Homepage: http://www.dcm4che.org/
 License: LGPL, MPL, Apache, other (also non-free)
 Pkg-Description: Clinical Image and Object Management (enterprise)
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Clinical Image and Object Management (enterprise)
  role of several IHE actors for the sake of interoperability, the
  application provides many robust and scalable services.
 
-Depends: piano
+Recommends: piano
 Homepage: http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/mbi/software/
 License: BSD
 Pkg-Description: medical image processing library for surgical planning
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Pkg-Description: medical image processing library for surgical planning
  multi-dimensional medical image processing, analysis and visualization.
  It is used in the field of surgical planning.
 
-Depends: mesa-test-tools
+Recommends: mesa-test-tools
 Homepage: http://ihedoc.wustl.edu/mesasoftware/
 License: free
 Pkg-Description: IHE Test Software for Radiology
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Pkg-Description: IHE Test Software for Radiology
  of CTN software in those tools does not have a separate release number
  but is more current than version 3.0.6."
 
-Depends: devide
+Recommends: devide
 Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/devide/
 License: BSD
 WNPP: 509110
@@ -208,13 +208,13 @@ Pkg-Description: Delft Visualization and Image processing Development Environmen
  .
  See the DeVIDE website at http://visualisation.tudelft.nl/Projects/DeVIDE
 
-Depends: dicom4j
+Recommends: dicom4j
 Homepage: http://dicom4j.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Java framework for Dicom
  Java framework for Dicom
 
-Depends: opendicom.net
+Recommends: opendicom.net
 Homepage: http://opendicom.sourceforge.net/
 License: LGPL
 Responsible: Albert Gnandt <agnandt at users.sourceforge.net>
@@ -263,10 +263,10 @@ Pkg-Description: API to DICOM in C# for Mono
  All GUI applications focus the popular GNOME desktop, but are 100%
  platform independent by relying on Mono.
 
-Depends: afni
+Recommends: afni
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/afni.html
 
-Depends: blox
+Recommends: blox
 Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/blox/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: medical imaging and visualization program
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Pkg-Description: medical imaging and visualization program
  (http://pni.med.jhu.edu/methods/morph.htm).
 
 
-Depends: ecg2png
+Recommends: ecg2png
 X-Homepage-old: http://www.cardiothink.com/downloads
 Homepage: http://www.freshports.org/graphics/ecg2png/
 License: GPL
@@ -302,9 +302,9 @@ Remark: Homepage vanished
  can be downloaded fro instance from
  http://www.freshports.org/graphics/ecg2png/ .
 
-Depends: kradview
+Recommends: kradview
 
-Depends: opensourcepacs
+Recommends: opensourcepacs
 Homepage: http://www.mii.ucla.edu/index.php/MainSite:OpenSourcePacsHome
 License: GPL
 WNPP: 509113
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Pkg-Description: visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientifi
  VisIt was designed to handle very large data set sizes in the terascale
  range and yet can also handle small data sets in the kilobyte range.
 
-Depends: mni-autoreg
+Recommends: mni-autoreg
 Homepage: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/mni_autoreg/
 License: no-free, but GPLed parts
 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ Pkg-Description: MNI average brain (305 MRI) stereotaxic registration model
   * average_305_mask.mnc - a mask of the brain in average_305.mnc
   * average_305_headmask.mnc - another mask, required for nonlinear mode
 
-Depends: mni-n3
+Recommends: mni-n3
 Homepage: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/N3/
 License: BSDish
 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
@@ -368,7 +368,7 @@ Pkg-Description: MNI Non-parametric Non-uniformity Normalization
   * mni-n3 - provides 'nu_correct'
   * libebtks-dev - MNI support library with numerical types and algorithms
 
-Depends: brainvisa
+Recommends: brainvisa
 Homepage: http://brainvisa.info/
 License: Free? (CeCill License)
 Pkg-Description: image processing factory for MR images
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ Pkg-Description: image processing factory for MR images
  labeling of the cortical folds according to a nomenclature of the
  main sulci.
 
-Depends: maris
+Recommends: maris
 Homepage: http://maris.homelinux.org/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: package suite for Radiological Workflow
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ Pkg-Description: package suite for Radiological Workflow
  that is an ensemble of single pieces that cooperate together using
  IHE profiles.
 
-Depends: micromanager
+Recommends: micromanager
 Pkg-URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/micromanager
 Remark: Partially problematic licenses
  Unfortunately there is a pile of dirty licenses involved so I'm not sure
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Pkg-Description: simulator for magnetic resonance imaging data
  parameters (TR, TE ...) to be specified and then produces simulated
  images with noise. Currently, no artifacts are implemented.
 
-Depends: fiji
+Recommends: fiji
 Homepage: http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/
 Responsible: Mark Longair <mark-debianlists at longair.net>
 Pkg-URL: http://pacific.mpi-cbg.de/wiki/index.php/Downloads
@@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ Remark: About packaging status the authors said:
     packages in Debian, but now that these are in sid we should
     eventually be able to switch to using those.
 
-Depends: cdmedicpacs
+Recommends: cdmedicpacs
 Homepage: http://cdmedicpacsweb.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL2
 Pkg-URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdmedicpacsweb/files/
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Pkg-Description: web interface to PACS to access DICOM study images
     Viewers/Work Stations.
   * Good DICOM interaction with free DICOM Viewers Aeskulap
 
-Depends: stir
+Recommends: stir
 Homepage: http://stir.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction
@@ -489,10 +489,10 @@ Pkg-Description: Software for Tomographic Image Reconstruction
  the PARAPET project..
 Remark: Even if this is GPLed software the download requires registration.
 
-Depends: openelectrophy
+Recommends: openelectrophy
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/openelectrophy.html
 
-Depends: invesalius
+Recommends: invesalius
 X-Screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4053278/invesalius_trac/screenshots/invesalius3_promed_0446_bone.png
  This screenshot is done on iOSX :-(
 
@@ -501,16 +501,16 @@ Comment: Several related R packages are listed at CRAN:
          http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/MedicalImaging.html
 
 
-Depends: mricron
+Recommends: mricron
 Published-Title: Improving lesion-symptom mapping
 Published-Authors: Chris Rorden, Hans-Otto Karnath, Leonardo Bonilha
 Published-In: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19: 1081-1088
 Published-Year: 2007
 Published-URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17583985
 
-Depends: voxbo
+Recommends: voxbo
 
-Depends: mrtrix
+Recommends: mrtrix
 Published-Title: Robust determination of the fibre orientation distribution in diffusion MRI: Non-negativity constrained super-resolved spherical deconvolution
 Published-Authors: J-Donald Tournier, Fernando Calamantea, Alan Connelly
 Published-In: NeuroImage, 35: 1459-1472
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ Published-Year: 2007
 Published-DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.016
 
 
-Depends: ants
+Recommends: ants
 Published-Title: The optimal template effect in hippocampus studies of diseased populations
 Published-Authors: Brian B. Avants, Paul Yushkevich, John Pluta, David Minkoff, Marc Korczykowski, John Detre and James C. Gee
 Published-In: NeuroImage, 49: 2457-2466
@@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ Published-DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.09.062
 X-Institution: UCLA Center for Computation Biology
 
 
-Depends: itksnap
+Recommends: itksnap
 
-Depends: mriconvert
+Recommends: mriconvert
 
-Depends: mia-tools, mialmpick, mia-viewit
+Recommends: mia-tools, mialmpick, mia-viewit
 
-Depends: ismrmrd-tools
+Recommends: ismrmrd-tools
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [Please note here if modified manually]
 Suggests: connectomeviewer
@@ -544,11 +544,11 @@ Published-Title: The Connectome Viewer Toolkit: An open source framework to mana
 Published-Year: 2011
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [Now official package]
-Depends: sigviewer
+Recommends: sigviewer
 
-Depends: python-tifffile
+Recommends: python-tifffile
 
-Depends: mni-icbm152-nlin-2009
+Recommends: mni-icbm152-nlin-2009
 Homepage: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ServicesAtlases/ICBM152NLin2009
 License: custom, DFSG-compliant
 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
@@ -570,17 +570,17 @@ Published-Year: 2009
 Remark: This package is waiting for the Debian data package archive to become available.
 
 
-Depends: mni-colin27-nifti
+Recommends: mni-colin27-nifti
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/mni-colin27-nifti.html
 
-Depends: mipav
+Recommends: mipav
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/mipav.html
 
-Depends: jist
+Recommends: jist
 
-Depends: openmeeg-tools
+Recommends: openmeeg-tools
 
-Depends: jemris
+Recommends: jemris
 License: GPL-2+
 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
 WNPP: 590469
@@ -597,10 +597,10 @@ Published-In: Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
 Published-Year: 2010
 Published-DOI: 10.1002/mrm.22406
 
-Depends: insightapplications
+Recommends: insightapplications
 Language: C++, Python, Tcl
 
-Depends: tempo
+Recommends: tempo
 Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/tempo/
 License: BSD
 Language: C++, Qt
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ Pkg-Description: 3D visualization of brain electrical activity
  publishing.
 Remark: Packaged for OpenSuSE http://en.opensuse.org/TEMPO
 
-Depends: dti-query
+Recommends: dti-query
 Homepage: http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/dti/software/index.html
 License: MIT
 Language: C++
@@ -655,9 +655,9 @@ Recommends: python-dipy
 Why: Although listed in -dev task, it also has a strong focus on interactive
  data analysis.
 
-Depends: plastimatch
+Recommends: plastimatch
 
-Depends: medisnap
+Recommends: medisnap
 Homepage: http://medisnap.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL-3
 Pkg-Description: photograph, manage, view, compare, document and archive medical photos
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ Pkg-Description: photograph, manage, view, compare, document and archive medical
     the current patient in your system
   * easily print selected photos and archive or give them to your patients
 
-Depends: gimias
+Recommends: gimias
 Homepage: http://www.gimias.org/
 X-SF-URL: http://gimias.sourceforge.net
 License: BSD-like
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ Remark: At the moment available only for Windows, but author says
  there should be no major showstoppers to build it on Linux -- just
  needs building infrastructure
 
-Depends: mayam
+Recommends: mayam
 Language: Java
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [extra information removed because package uploaded to Debian]
@@ -785,7 +785,7 @@ Published-Year: 2007
 Registration: http://www.xnat.org/download-xnat.html
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [Removed unneeded publication data]
-Depends: biosig-tools
+Recommends: biosig-tools
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [Please note here if modified manually]
 Suggests: isis
@@ -826,15 +826,15 @@ Pkg-Description: evaluate fMRI scanner stability
  on the FBIRN quality assurance test protocal. Any 4D volumetric timeseries
  image in NIfTI format is support input. Output is a rich HTML report.
 
-Depends: python-surfer
+Recommends: python-surfer
 
-Depends: dicoogle
+Recommends: dicoogle
 
-Depends: cellprofiler
+Recommends: cellprofiler
 
-Depends: bioimagexd
+Recommends: bioimagexd
 
-Depends: omero
+Recommends: omero
 Homepage: http://www.openmicroscopy.org
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: coming standard LIMS for microscopy images
@@ -864,11 +864,11 @@ Published-Title: A National Human Neuroimaging Collaboratory Enabled
 Published-Year: 2008
 Registration: http://www.nitrc.org/account/register.php
 
-Depends: king
+Recommends: king
 
-Depends: vtk-dicom-tools
+Recommends: vtk-dicom-tools
 
-Depends: gdf-tools
+Recommends: gdf-tools
 
 Suggests: incf-nidash-oneclick-clients
 Homepage: http://xnat.incf.org/
@@ -883,15 +883,15 @@ Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
 Vcs-Git: https://github.com/INCF/one_click.git
 Vcs-Browser: https://github.com/INCF/one_click
 
-Depends: fw4spl
+Recommends: fw4spl
 
-Depends: bart
+Recommends: bart
 
-Depends: bart-view
+Recommends: bart-view
 WNPP: 851431
 
 Suggests: science-workflow
 
-Depends: dcm2niix
+Recommends: dcm2niix
 
-Depends: orthanc-wsi
+Recommends: orthanc-wsi
diff --git a/tasks/imaging-dev b/tasks/imaging-dev
index b0ad076..cf4d130 100644
--- a/tasks/imaging-dev
+++ b/tasks/imaging-dev
@@ -4,32 +4,32 @@ Description: Debian Med image processing and visualization packages development
  for developing applications for medical image processing and
  visualization.
 
-Depends: ctn-dev, cimg-dev, libminc-dev, libmdc2-dev, libvtk6-dev
+Recommends: ctn-dev, cimg-dev, libminc-dev, libmdc2-dev, libvtk6-dev
 
 Suggests: libvtkedge-dev
 
-Depends: libnifti-dev
+Recommends: libnifti-dev
 
-Depends: libigstk4-dev
+Recommends: libigstk4-dev
 
 Suggests: igstk-examples
 
-Depends: libinsighttoolkit4-dev
+Recommends: libinsighttoolkit4-dev
 
 Suggests: libnifti-doc
 
 Suggests: libfreeimage-dev
 
-Depends: libvolpack1-dev
+Recommends: libvolpack1-dev
 
-Depends: libgdcm2-dev
-Depends: python-gdcm
+Recommends: libgdcm2-dev
+Recommends: python-gdcm
 
 Suggests: libics-dev
 
-Depends: libopensurgsim-dev
+Recommends: libopensurgsim-dev
 
-Depends: libmaxflow-dev
+Recommends: libmaxflow-dev
 
 Suggests: liblimereg-dev
 
@@ -52,42 +52,42 @@ Remark: Homepage shows some potential medical applications
  latest snapshot from http://snapshot.debian.org/package/libavg/1.0.1-1/ or use
  the packaging in collab-maint for reintroducing.
 
-Depends: python-mvpa2
+Recommends: python-mvpa2
 Why: Suggested by maintainer Michael Hanke <michael.hanke at gmail.com>
 
-Depends: python-nipy
+Recommends: python-nipy
 
-Depends: python-nipype
+Recommends: python-nipype
 
-Depends: python-nitime
+Recommends: python-nitime
 
-Depends: python-casmoothing
+Recommends: python-casmoothing
 
-Depends: libvia-dev
+Recommends: libvia-dev
 
-Depends: odin
+Recommends: odin
 
-Depends: libcv-dev
+Recommends: libcv-dev
 
-Depends: libvxl1-dev
+Recommends: libvxl1-dev
 
-Depends: libteem-dev
+Recommends: libteem-dev
 
-Depends: gmic
+Recommends: gmic
 
-Depends: libgiftiio-dev
+Recommends: libgiftiio-dev
 
-Depends: libvistaio-dev
+Recommends: libvistaio-dev
 
-Depends: libmia-2.4-dev, libmiaviewit-dev, libmialm-dev
+Recommends: libmia-2.4-dev, libmiaviewit-dev, libmialm-dev
 
-Depends: python-mia | python3-mia
+Recommends: python-mia | python3-mia
 
-Depends: libopenigtlink-dev
+Recommends: libopenigtlink-dev
 
-Depends: r-cran-rniftilib
+Recommends: r-cran-rniftilib
 
-Depends: libmni-perllib-perl
+Recommends: libmni-perllib-perl
 Homepage: http://packages.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/tgz/
 License: Artistic License
 Responsible: NeuroDebian Team <team at neuro.debian.net>
@@ -100,15 +100,15 @@ Remark: There was some previous work on this software which is stalled currently
  http://mentors.debian.net/cgi-bin/sponsor-pkglist?action=details;package=libmni-perllib-perl
  to Debian Med svn and start group maintenance.
 
-Depends: python-dicom
+Recommends: python-dicom
 License: MIT
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/python-dicom.html
 
-Depends: libopenmeeg-dev
+Recommends: libopenmeeg-dev
 
-Depends: python-nibabel
+Recommends: python-nibabel
 
-Depends: libgdf-dev, octave-gdf
+Recommends: libgdf-dev, octave-gdf
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.6. [Please note here if modified manually]
 Suggests: emokit
@@ -120,23 +120,23 @@ Vcs-Git: git://github.com/daeken/Emokit.git
 Pkg-Description: Emotiv EPOC headset Python interface
  Emotive is an interface to a budget Emotiv EPOC EEG headset.
 
-Depends: python-pyxnat
+Recommends: python-pyxnat
 
-Depends: python-dipy
+Recommends: python-dipy
 
-Depends: libbiosig-dev
+Recommends: libbiosig-dev
 
-Depends: libctk-dev
+Recommends: libctk-dev
 
-Depends: python-cfflib
+Recommends: python-cfflib
 
-Depends: libopenslide-dev
+Recommends: libopenslide-dev
 
-Depends: python-openslide
+Recommends: python-openslide
 
-Depends: libopenslide-java
+Recommends: libopenslide-java
 
-Depends: libbio-formats-java
+Recommends: libbio-formats-java
 Language: Java
 Remark: This library would enhance the package imagej
 
@@ -144,36 +144,36 @@ Suggests: libeegdev-dev
 
 Suggests: libxdffileio-dev
 
-Depends: octave-dicom
+Recommends: octave-dicom
 Homepage: http://octave.sourceforge.net/dicom/
 License: GPL-v3+
 Pkg-Description: Dicom support in Octave
  Digital communications in medicine (DICOM) file io. Depends on Grassroots DICOM (GDCM)
 
-Depends: libcamitk-dev
+Recommends: libcamitk-dev
 
-Depends: libpapyrus3-dev
+Recommends: libpapyrus3-dev
 
-Depends: python-mne
+Recommends: python-mne
 
 Suggests: python-tifffile
 
-Depends: python-vmtk, libvmtk-dev
+Recommends: python-vmtk, libvmtk-dev
 
-Depends: libvigraimpex-dev, python-vigra
+Recommends: libvigraimpex-dev, python-vigra
 
-Depends: libvtk-dicom-dev, libvtk-dicom-java
+Recommends: libvtk-dicom-dev, libvtk-dicom-java
 
-Depends: libedf-dev
+Recommends: libedf-dev
 
-Depends: python-imageio
+Recommends: python-imageio
 
-Depends: libismrmrd-dev
+Recommends: libismrmrd-dev
 
-Depends: libodil0-dev
+Recommends: libodil0-dev
 
-Depends: libbart-dev, octave-bart
+Recommends: libbart-dev, octave-bart
 
 Suggests: libcamp-dev
 
-Depends: libcifti-dev
+Recommends: libcifti-dev
diff --git a/tasks/laboratory b/tasks/laboratory
index 294cf6c..a4894bc 100644
--- a/tasks/laboratory
+++ b/tasks/laboratory
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Description: Debian Med suggestions for medical laboratories
  This metapackage contains dependencies for software and that could
  be useful ro run a medical laboratory.
 
-Depends: opencfu
+Recommends: opencfu
 
-Depends: orthanc-wsi
+Recommends: orthanc-wsi
 
-Depends: openelis
+Recommends: openelis
 Homepage: http://openelis.uhl.uiowa.edu/
 License: UIRF Open-source Based Public Software License
 Pkg-Description: Enterprise Laboratory Information System
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ Pkg-Description: Enterprise Laboratory Information System
  maintenance costs. By using an open source approach, we ensure that the project
  will continue to evolve and meet the changing needs of the community.
 
-Depends: openfreezer
+Recommends: openfreezer
 
-Depends: catissuesuite
+Recommends: catissuesuite
 License: to be clarified
 Homepage: https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/tools/catissuesuite
 Pkg-Description:  tool for biospecimen inventory management
diff --git a/tasks/oncology b/tasks/oncology
index 075bd62..a1a0b74 100644
--- a/tasks/oncology
+++ b/tasks/oncology
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for oncology
  This metapackage will install tools that are useful for radiation
  oncology.
 
-Depends: uw-prism
+Recommends: uw-prism
 
-Depends: orthanc-wsi
+Recommends: orthanc-wsi
 
-Depends: planunc
+Recommends: planunc
 Homepage: http://planunc.radonc.unc.edu/about/
 License: needs to be clarified, registration required
 Pkg-Description: tools for radiotherapy treatment planning
@@ -25,4 +25,4 @@ Pkg-Description: tools for radiotherapy treatment planning
  therapy, and to support RTP training for dosimetrists, physicists,
  radiation therapists, and radiation oncology residents.
 
-Depends: dicompyler
+Recommends: dicompyler
diff --git a/tasks/pharmacy b/tasks/pharmacy
index 8c6094c..2d37f11 100644
--- a/tasks/pharmacy
+++ b/tasks/pharmacy
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for pharmaceutical research
  collection of software and documentation which is useful for
  pharmaceutical research.
 
-Depends: chemtool
+Recommends: chemtool
 
-Depends: raccoon
+Recommends: raccoon
 
-Depends: r-cran-dosefinding
+Recommends: r-cran-dosefinding
 
 Comment: Several related R packages are listed at CRAN:
          http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Pharmacokinetics.html
diff --git a/tasks/physics b/tasks/physics
index 41841aa..ee1dca7 100644
--- a/tasks/physics
+++ b/tasks/physics
@@ -5,30 +5,30 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for medical physicists
  medical physicists in radiation oncology, diagnostics imaging
  and related fields.
 
-Depends: paw++
+Recommends: paw++
 Why:     Just depend from the user friendly version because it is easier to
          povide a menu item
 
-Depends: paw
+Recommends: paw
 Why:     This is for the purists with exactly the same functionality as paw++
 
 Suggests: paw-demos
 
-Depends: octave
+Recommends: octave
 
-Depends: r-base
+Recommends: r-base
 X-Comment: removed " | r-base-core" which desturbs tasks page and does not
            harm to just use the metapackage in the dependency list
 Why:     "r-base" is a metapackage and it is better to have a default
          alternative -- Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
 
-Depends: biosig-tools
+Recommends: biosig-tools
 
 Suggests: libbiosig-dev, python-biosig, octave-biosig
 
-Depends: gdf-tools
+Recommends: gdf-tools
 
-Depends: gate
+Recommends: gate
 Homepage: http://www.opengatecollaboration.org
 License: LGPL
 WNPP: 431425
diff --git a/tasks/practice b/tasks/practice
index ad84312..0c449fa 100644
--- a/tasks/practice
+++ b/tasks/practice
@@ -3,30 +3,30 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for practice management
  This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software
  which might be helpful for practitioners to manage their practice.
 
-Depends: gnumed-client
+Recommends: gnumed-client
 
-Depends: gnumed-server
+Recommends: gnumed-server
 
-Depends: libchipcard-tools
+Recommends: libchipcard-tools
 Why: Reading German "Gesundheitskarte"
 
-Depends: ginkgocadx
+Recommends: ginkgocadx
 
 Suggests: libctapimkt1
 
-Depends: freediams, freemedforms-emr
+Recommends: freediams, freemedforms-emr
 
-Depends: r-cran-medadherence
+Recommends: r-cran-medadherence
 
-Depends: entangle
+Recommends: entangle
 
-Depends: sleepyhead
+Recommends: sleepyhead
 
-Depends: orthanc
+Recommends: orthanc
 
-Depends: orthanc-wsi
+Recommends: orthanc-wsi
 
-Depends: medintux
+Recommends: medintux
 Homepage: http://medintux.org/medintux/en/
 License: CeCILL (free)
 Pkg-Description: Medical practice management system
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Medical practice management system
  Any person with real french to english skill is wellcome.
  Please, contact Gérard Delafond : gerard-at-delafond.org
 
-Depends: mirth
+Recommends: mirth
 Homepage: http://www.mirthproject.org/
 License: MPL 1.1
 Pkg-Description: HL7 integration engine
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Pkg-Description: HL7 integration engine
  Mirth also supports filters written in Java if you require more complex
  filtering options.
 
-Depends: tinyheb
+Recommends: tinyheb
 Homepage: http://tinyheb.sourceforge.net/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-URL: http://home.arcor.de/thomas.baum/tinyheb/source/
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Comment: I do not really remember why this is set to "Ignore" - my
  repository of clearhealth which was linked from http://www.op-en.org/
  vanished.
 
-Depends: mirrormed
+Recommends: mirrormed
 Homepage: http://www.mirrormed.org/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: EHR and practice management system
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Pkg-Description: EHR and practice management system
  capable of running a healthcare practice. MirrorMed shares code with
  FreeMED, and OpenEMR. MirrorMed is primarily sponsored by SynSeer.
 
-Depends: elexis
+Recommends: elexis
 Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/elexis
 License: Eclipse Public License
 WNPP: 570433
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ Pkg-Description: medical practice managemant system for use in Switzerland
  accounting, billing (swiss TARMED-System, other systems to be
  developped) and other daily work.
 
-Depends: freeb
+Recommends: freeb
 Homepage: http://freeb.org/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Medical Bill formating module
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Medical Bill formating module
  FreeB 1.0 (Perl) is still used by the OpenEMR project. FreeB 1.0 was rewritten
  as REMITT which used by the FreeMED project.
 
-Depends: freemed
+Recommends: freemed
 Homepage: http://www.freemedsoftware.org/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-URL: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/freemed/freemed_0.8.4-1_all.deb?use_mirror=mesh
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Electronic Medical Record and Practice Management system
  backend and multiple import and export formats, as well as reporting and other
  features.
 
-Depends: elementalclinic
+Recommends: elementalclinic
 Homepage: http://www.elementalclinic.com/
 License: GPL2+
 Responsible: Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp at opensourcery.com>
@@ -168,10 +168,10 @@ Pkg-Description: Electronical Medical Health record system for mental health
   * Train and support clinicians to get the most from your EMR
   * Customize software to fit unique practice needs
 
-Depends: openemr
+Recommends: openemr
 Pkg-URL: http://www.oemr.org/Download_OpenEMR/
 
-Depends: clearhealth
+Recommends: clearhealth
 Homepage: http://www.op-en.org/site/clearhealth
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Medical practice management system
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Remark: scientific use?
  Please read the thread about homeopathic software on the Debian Med mailing
  list starting at http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2009/06/msg00028.html .
 
-Depends: proteus
+Recommends: proteus
 Homepage: http://proteme.org/
 License: EPL
 Pkg-Description: clinical decision support guidelines model
@@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ Pkg-Description: clinical decision support guidelines model
  condition has been created, it can be executed to provide stepwise advice
  for any patient having that condition.
 
-Depends: thera-pi
+Recommends: thera-pi
 
-Depends: freeshim
+Recommends: freeshim
 Homepage: http://freeshim.org/
 Pkg-URL: https://launchpad.net/~rufustfirefly/+archive/ppa/+buildjob/2489799/+files/shim_0.1.1-1ubuntu2~maverick_all.deb
 Pkg-Description: opensource electronic medical device interface
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ Remark: Needs Java prerequisites
   * org.hsqldb:hsqldb:2.0.0
   * org.reflections:reflections:0.9.5-RC2
 
-Depends: remitt
+Recommends: remitt
 Homepage: http://remitt.org/
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: preparing and submitting medical billing data
@@ -290,4 +290,4 @@ Pkg-Description: preparing and submitting medical billing data
  or PM system which implements its application programming interface
  (API). The first system to do so has been FreeMED.
 
-Depends: qrisk2
+Recommends: qrisk2
diff --git a/tasks/psychology b/tasks/psychology
index 09d7548..c8894b5 100644
--- a/tasks/psychology
+++ b/tasks/psychology
@@ -6,14 +6,14 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for psychology
 Suggests: science-psychophysics
 Meta-Suggests: svn://svn.debian.org/blends/projects/science/trunk/debian-science/tasks/psychophysics
 
-Depends: python-pyepl
+Recommends: python-pyepl
 
-Depends: praat
+Recommends: praat
 
-Depends: r-cran-foreign, psignifit, python-pypsignifit
+Recommends: r-cran-foreign, psignifit, python-pypsignifit
 Why: analysis packages of particular relevance for psych. data
 
-Depends: r-cran-psy
+Recommends: r-cran-psy
 Remark: r-cran-psy is orphaned upstream.
  Hint to users of statistical psychological software.  This package
  seems to be orphaned upstream.  There are several related packages
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Remark: r-cran-psy is orphaned upstream.
  of them.
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.6. [Please note here if modified manually]
-Depends: psychopy
+Recommends: psychopy
 Pkg-URL: http://neuro.debian.net/pkgs/psychopy.html
 Published-Authors: J. W. Peirce
 Published-DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.11.017
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Published-Year: 2007
 
 Suggests: python-visionegg
 
-Depends: miscpsycho
+Recommends: miscpsycho
 Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MiscPsycho
 License: GPL
 Language: R
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Pkg-URL: http://debian.cran.r-project.org/cran2deb/debian-amd64/testing/
 Pkg-Description: Miscellaneous Psychometric Analyses
  Miscellaneous functions for psychometric problems
 
-Depends: psych
+Recommends: psych
 Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psych/
 License: GPL2+
 Language: R
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Procedures for Psychological, Psychometric, and Personality Res
  personality research. For more information, see the
  personality-project.org/r webpage.
 
-Depends: psychometric
+Recommends: psychometric
 Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psychometric
 License: GPL2+
 Language: R
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Applied Psychometric Theory
  (validity-generalization), reliability, item analysis, inter-rater
  reliability, and classical utility
 
-Depends: psychotree
+Recommends: psychotree
 Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psychotree/
 License: GPL2
 Language: R
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ Pkg-Description: Recursive Partitioning Based on Psychometric Models
  general MOB algorithm (from package party). Currently, only
  Bradley-Terry trees are implemented.
 
-Depends: psyphy
+Recommends: psyphy
 Homepage: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/psyphy/
 License: GPL
 Language: R
diff --git a/tasks/rehabilitation b/tasks/rehabilitation
index a5ae955..1f4d338 100644
--- a/tasks/rehabilitation
+++ b/tasks/rehabilitation
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for rehabilitation technologies
  This metapackage will install tools that are useful for
  rehabilitation and therapy.
 
-Depends: sitplus
+Recommends: sitplus
 
  ; Added by blends-inject 0.0.7. [Please note here if modified manually]
 Suggests: aghermann
diff --git a/tasks/research b/tasks/research
index e1e6ed8..5f5485c 100644
--- a/tasks/research
+++ b/tasks/research
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description: Debian Med packages for medical research
  This metapackage will install tools that are useful for
  medical research.
 
-Depends: openclinica
+Recommends: openclinica
 License: GPL
 Homepage: https://openclinica.com/
 WNPP: 438868
diff --git a/tasks/statistics b/tasks/statistics
index e29ce61..d665704 100644
--- a/tasks/statistics
+++ b/tasks/statistics
@@ -4,23 +4,23 @@ Description: Debian Med statistics
  This metapackage will install packages which are helpful to do statistics
  with a special focus on tasks in medical care.
 
-Depends: r-bioc-edger, r-bioc-limma
+Recommends: r-bioc-edger, r-bioc-limma
 Why: Statistical analysis of transcriptome expression assays.
 
-Depends: r-bioc-qvalue
+Recommends: r-bioc-qvalue
 
-Depends: r-cran-randomforest
+Recommends: r-cran-randomforest
 
 Suggests: science-statistics
 Why: This more or less includes all statistics relevant packages which might be
  a bit to much for medical purposes - so it is only suggested.
 
-Depends: r-cran-beeswarm
+Recommends: r-cran-beeswarm
 
-Depends: r-cran-pvclust
+Recommends: r-cran-pvclust
 
-Depends: rstudio
+Recommends: rstudio
 
-Depends: r-bioc-multtest
+Recommends: r-bioc-multtest
 
-Depends: r-cran-ade4
+Recommends: r-cran-ade4
diff --git a/tasks/tools b/tasks/tools
index ba12895..c7b236b 100644
--- a/tasks/tools
+++ b/tasks/tools
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Description: Debian Med several tools
  This metapackage will install tools for several purposes in health care.
  Currently it contains some simple programs for Personal Health.
 
-Depends: pcalendar
+Recommends: pcalendar
 
 Suggests: cycle
 Remark: Use pcalendar instead
@@ -15,40 +15,40 @@ Remark: Use pcalendar instead
  Please consider using pcalendar instead of mencal because mencal is outdated,
  not maintained any more and pcalendar simply overpasses it.
 
-Depends: pondus
+Recommends: pondus
 
-Depends: mssstest
+Recommends: mssstest
 
-Depends: wgerman-medical, hunspell-de-med
+Recommends: wgerman-medical, hunspell-de-med
 
-Depends: quitcount
+Recommends: quitcount
 
-Depends: workrave
+Recommends: workrave
 
-Depends: edfbrowser
+Recommends: edfbrowser
 
 Suggests: entangle
 
-Depends: hunspell-en-med
+Recommends: hunspell-en-med
 
-Depends: python-clips
+Recommends: python-clips
 
-Depends: cronometer
+Recommends: cronometer
 
-Depends: python-fitbit
+Recommends: python-fitbit
 
-Depends: r-cran-fitcoach
+Recommends: r-cran-fitcoach
 
-Depends: r-cran-fitbitscraper
+Recommends: r-cran-fitbitscraper
 
-Depends: galileo
+Recommends: galileo
 
 Suggests: goldencheetah
 
-Depends: nut-nutrition
+Recommends: nut-nutrition
 
-Depends: nutsqlite
+Recommends: nutsqlite
 
 Suggests: sleepyhead
 
-Depends: pesco
+Recommends: pesco
diff --git a/tasks/typesetting b/tasks/typesetting
index 7ef3e8c..3673128 100644
--- a/tasks/typesetting
+++ b/tasks/typesetting
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Description: Debian Med support for typesetting and publishing
  for typesetting and publishing in medical care and structural
  biology.
 
-Depends: texlive-science
+Recommends: texlive-science
 Remark: For biologists specifically biotex.sty and textopo.sty are interesting
  The texlive-science package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for
  different sciences.  As a biologist you are most probably interested in
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Remark: For biologists specifically biotex.sty and textopo.sty are interesting
  in
   /usr/share/doc/texlive-science-doc/latex/textopo/
 
-Depends: texlive-latex-extra
+Recommends: texlive-latex-extra
 Remark: For biologists specifically texshade.sty is interesting
  The texlive-latex-extra package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for
  different purposes.  As a biologist you are most probably interested in
@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ Remark:
  Desktop tools that help inserting references in LibreOffice, or help managing
  PDF collections. This list is probably incomplete.
 
-Depends: king
+Recommends: king
 
 Suggests: r-cran-qqman

-- 
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