[Debian-med-packaging] Could someone please clarify release status of MUMmer? (Re: Additional info: can not see update note: MUMmer)

[James Procter]

Thanks for finding the mummer4 package, Ben.

On 10/04/2020 12:44, Ben Tris wrote:
I don't understand that search string, can't make up what exactly was searched on.

For the record, that link was to papers citing Kurtz 2004 - in scholar's usual unreadable api style.

The https://mummer4.github.io/ homepage cites the 2018 PLOS article as the canonical citation:

https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005944

This paper suggests two innovations for mummer4 - longer genomes (not directly relevant for covid19) and parallelisation. I would recommend prioritising mummer3 over 4 but ultimately the majority of bioinformaticians will prefer mummer4.

Slainté,

Jim.

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