[Bio-linux-list] The reports of Bio-Linux's death are greatly exaggerated

[Andor J Kiss]

Hi Tony (& All).
	There are some US-UK funding opportunities for NSF (US) and
BIO-UK BBSRC (UK) specifically for bioinformatics.  We might check into
these and maybe generate a large project grant between several PIs to
hire programmers/maintainers?
	URL: https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=130555
	What does everyone think?
Regards,
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On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 12:29 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
> On 18/02/17 17:11, Andreas Leimbach wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Tony,
> > 
> > thanks a lot for your efforts for keeping BioLinux alive! It's a
> > fantastic project, although Bioconda, linuxbrew etc. are becoming
> > more
> > and more interesting alternatives for certain applications.
> Hi, Andreas.
> 
> For anyone who doesn't already know, "Bioconda" is a meta-package
> manager for bioinformatics applications:
> 
> > 
> > https://bioconda.github.io/
> Similarly, "LinuxBrew" is a port of the Mac OS "Homebrew" non-Apple
> crowd-funded package manager that is also supported by "Bioconda".
> 
> > 
> > http://linuxbrew.sh/
> I've looked at both of these and what bothers me most is the extra
> responsibility placed on biologists to make use of these systems.
> 
> The USP of Bio-Linux is that it's a complete bioinformatics
> workstation
> platform that biologists with little or no prior experience of system
> administration can make use of to learn how to do bioinformatics.
> 
> > 
> > Sadly, I'm not that knowledgeable in funding, but for me BioLinux
> > definitely falls under the topic Open Science (OS). Thus, there
> > might be
> > money to support dev in the current OS environment of funding
> > agencies.
> > What about EU projects like Horizon 2020 that support OS?
> > 
> > https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm
> Brexit has put an end to all that... :-(
> 
> > 
> > How is Debian Med funded?
> It's part of Debian - A Debian 'blend' supported by volunteers.
> 
> > 
> > Maybe the OKFN (https://science.okfn.org/) or Mozilla Science Lab
> > (https://science.mozilla.org/) have ideas how to tap funding
> > agencies?
> > They should have mailing lists for asking such a question. After
> > all
> > BioLinux is definitely mostly used by university affiliated
> > researchers.
> In fact, Bio-Linux was funded specifically by EOS/NERC to support
> NERC
> grant awardees but made publically available because NERC funding
> comes
> from the UK taxpayer and anything it does is made publically
> available.
> 
> > 
> > Just my 2 cents ...
> Every cent counts :-)
> 
> Thanks for all your suggestions,
> 
>   Tony.
> 
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