[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#836956: ITP: metaphlan2-data -- data package for Metagenomic Phylogenetic Analysis

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : metaphlan2-data
  Version         : 2.6.0
  Upstream Author : Duy Tin Truong, Nicola Segata and Curtis Huttenhower
* URL             : https://bitbucket.org/biobakery/metaphlan2/downloads
* License         : expat
  Programming Lang: none (pure data)
  Description     : data package for Metagenomic Phylogenetic Analysis
 MetaPhlAn is a computational tool for profiling the composition of
 microbial communities (Bacteria, Archaea, Eukaryotes and Viruses) from
 metagenomic shotgun sequencing data with species level resolution. From
 version 2.0, MetaPhlAn is also able to identify specific strains (in the
 not-so-frequent cases in which the sample contains a previously
 sequenced strains) and to track strains across samples for all species.
 .
 MetaPhlAn 2.0 relies on ~1M unique clade-specific marker genes (the
 marker information file can be found at src/utils/markers_info.txt.bz2
 or here) identified from ~17,000 reference genomes (~13,500 bacterial
 and archaeal, ~3,500 viral, and ~110 eukaryotic), allowing:
 .
  * unambiguous taxonomic assignments;
  * accurate estimation of organismal relative abundance;
  * species-level resolution for bacteria, archaea, eukaryotes and
    viruses;
  * strain identification and tracking
  * orders of magnitude speedups compared to existing methods.
  * metagenomic strain-level population genomics
 .
 This package contains the data for metaphlan2.


Remark: As discussed on debian-devel list[1] the large data are split
from metaphlan2 download into this package and also converted to some
format which is smaller in size as well as human editable.  The package
contains a script which converts these data back to the original format
(and does a md5sum based check whether the conversion was successful).

The package is maintained by the Debian Med team at
    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/metaphlan2-data.git


[1] last mail in thread which is implemented finally
    https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/08/msg00066.html