[Bioperl-l] Polloc: Naming question

[Luis-Miguel Rodríguez Rojas]

Dear all,

I am currently working in a Perl library aimed to simplify the development
of applications in Molecular Typing.  It's basically a library to handle
polymorphic loci (identify, group and predict typing results).  I think it's
not generic enough to be part of bioperl (and doesn't follow the directives
of bioperl) despite it largely uses the bioperl libraries.  However, I would
be glad to hear some comments about the namespace it should take from the
bioperl community.

I already developed a script using this library, and it's certainly useful,
so I would like to make it available from CPAN.  It's currently called
Polloc (for *Pol*ymorphic *loc*i), but a top-level name is probably a bad
idea.  Would it be ok if I use a Bio::* namespace?  I was thinking in
Bio::PolLoc or Bio::Typing::Polloc.  I would like to preserve the 'Polloc'
name, because I feel a more generic one would give the wrong idea about how
generic it is.  For example, I would expect Bio::Polymorphism or
Bio::MolecularTyping to be far more abstract than my library (which is aimed
to the usage of specific tools, and the analysis of specific loci).


Thanks!
LRR.

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