[Numpy-discussion] De Bruijn sequence

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 1 10:57:32 EST 2014


On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I happen to be working with De Bruijn sequences. Is there any interest in
>> this being part of numpy/scipy?
>>
>> https://gist.github.com/vincentdavis/8588879
>
> That looks like an old copy of GPL code from Sage:
> http://git.sagemath.org/sage.git/tree/src/sage/combinat/debruijn_sequence.pyx
>
> Besides the licensing issue, it doesn't really belong in scipy and certainly
> not in numpy imho.
>
> Ralf

If it is GPL code that would be a problem, but in terms of scope it might
fit under Biopython given how much De Bruijn graphs are used in
current sequence analysis.

Regards,

Peter



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