[Bioperl-l] Referencing BioPerl

[Lincoln Stein]

I don't know why this hasn't been pointed out, but Jason Stajich (with 
kibbitzing from the rest of the Bioperl "core" team) are nearing completion 
of a journal article that describes Bioperl.  I expect that it will be 
submitted real soon now.

Lincoln

On Friday 05 April 2002 07:05, jong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > On the other hand, once something gets printed on the certain page of
> > the given issue of a given journal, then it is there for the next
> > hundreds of years no matter how many libraries get Boeing-attacks.
> > Which is not always true with URLs (as "dynamic source") which
> > eventually change domain names, can be hacked and defaced, or the
> > maintenance fund may be discontinued, etc.
> > As the movie did not cease the  theatre and the DVD did not put a
> > stop to the movie, the printed literature also has its future.
>
> I agree with you on the importance of graveyard stone-copy of knowledge.
> I think people should write a paper on the
> philosophy, scientific part, novelty and advanced technology of bioperl
> that can be archived in a journal.
>
> Are you up for it :-) ?
>
> Anyway, I suggest Bioperl developers contribute to it.
>
> Best
>
> Jong
>
> > Regards
> > Peter
> >
> > On Friday, April 05, 2002 12:01 PM, jong [SMTP:jong@bio.cc] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Because of the very nature of Bioperl from the very conception,
> > > it will continuously evolve accommodating very different
> > > needs of very different people. In 3 years of time, the people
> > > involved and the direction it will take could be different from the
> > > one(s) now. There is no ultimate classic bioperl paper as
> > > it did not start off from a grant or paper but from an open,
> > > free and flexible organization/gathering of people over the
> > > Internet.
> > >
> > > So, I think the best way of referencing is to site the web address
> > > that is most active (bio.perl.org, bioperl.org etc) and relevant
> > > to your paper. That is the bioperlly way.
> > >
> > > Can you ask the webmaster of that site to put some documentation/
> > > reference link if there is not a good one yet?(Chris Dagdigan can
> > > help you
> > > on this I guess).
> > >
> > > Also, the reason why authors 'refer' to paper (when you think of
> > > 1800s) was to let new-comers to learn and old-stayers get
> > > information from
> > > the original source. Now the Internet is a great dynamic source of
> > > such
> > > resource. So, why don't we support it?
> > >
> > > Who knows, in the year 2020, people may find it odd
> > > to refer a 'paper' rather than a digital Inernet site/server (or
> > > the
> > > successor of present Internet).
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Jong
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Peter Kos" <kos@rite.or.jp>
> > > To: <bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:42 AM
> > > Subject: [Bioperl-l] Referencing BioPerl
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > how can I reference BioPerl in publications? Has it been
> >
> > published
> >
> > > > in
> > > > the old-fashion printed way in the last seven years?
> > > >
> > > > Thanx
> > > > Peter
> > > >
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