[BioRuby] BioRuby Documentation effort

GOTO Naohisa ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp
Wed Aug 24 00:09:49 EDT 2005


Hi,

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:55:42 +0200
pjotr at pckassa.com (Pjotr Prins) wrote:

> The following documents are in the ./doc directory:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 wrk pacs  9597 2004-08-24 01:41 BioRuby.rd.ja
> -rw-r--r--  1 wrk pacs 12043 2002-07-02 03:40 Design.rd.ja
> -rw-r--r--  1 wrk pacs 35298 2004-08-24 02:21 KEGG_API.rd.ja
> -rw-r--r--  1 wrk pacs  3109 2004-08-24 02:18 TODO.rd.ja
> -rw-r--r--  1 wrk pacs 33969 2004-08-24 02:19 Tutorial.rd.ja

There is English version of KEGG_API.rd.ja at:
http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/doc/keggapi_manual.html
(but not included in BioRuby distribution. Licence problem?)

For other four documents, though the contents of them are
a little bit obsolete,

> I notice these are all in Japanese and contain nuggets of gold ;-).
> Would anyone be interested in translating these into plain English?
> Especially the Tutorial is of interest. Don't worry about 'bad'
> English - I will clean it up. It would really be helpful if someone
> could do a quick and dirty translation - even if it were an MP3
> recording.

Yes.
All BioRuby developers in Japan (including me) are now
interested in writing and/or translating documents in English.

-- 
Naohisa GOTO
ngoto at gen-info.osaka-u.ac.jp
Department of Genome Informatics, Genome Information Research Center,
Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan


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