Debian Med Project
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Summary
A Debian Pure Blend is a Debian internal project which assembles a set of packages that might help users to solve certain tasks of their work. This page should be helpful to track down the bugs of packages that are interesting for the Debian Med project to enable developers a quick overview about possible problems.
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Bugs page

This is a list of metapackages. The links are leading to the respective bugs page.

Biology - Debian Med micro-biology packages (477*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages related to molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics for use in life sciences.

Biology development - Debian Med packages for development of micro-biology applications (24*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be helpful for development of applications for micro-biological research.

Next generation sequencing - Debian Med bioinformatics applications usable in Next Generation Sequencing (57*)

It aims at gettting packages which specializes in alignment of sequences produced by next generation sequencing.

Phylogeny - Debian Med phylogeny packages (48*)

This lists Debian packages related to phylogeny for use in life sciences. The purpose of this compilation of packages is to have a handy subset of from the med-bio metapackage which contains a lot more than only phylogeny related software.

Cloud - Debian Med bioinformatics applications usable in cloud computing (87*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages related to molecular biology, structural biology and bioinformatics for use in life sciences, that do not depend on graphical toolkits and therefore can fit on system images for use in cloud computing clusters, where space can be limited.

Content management - Debian Med content management systems (0*)

Here you can find software that is useful to build a content management system for medical care.

Medical data - Debian Med drug databases (30*)

This metapackage will install free drug databases and related applications. The database can be accessed by any EMR using the application.

Dental - Debian Med packages related to dental practice (0*)

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for dentists to manage their practice.

Epidemiology - Debian Med epidemiology related packages (0*)

This metapackage will install tools that are useful in epidemiological research. Several packages making use of the GNU R data language for statistical investigation. It might be a good idea to read the paper "A short introduction to R for Epidemiology" at http://staff.pubhealth.ku.dk/%7Ebxc/Epi/R-intro.pdf

Hospital information systems - Debian Med suggestions for Hospital Information Systems (0*)

Currently Debian Med does not yet contain any software which can be regarded as Hospital Information System. There is some Free Software out there which might be interesting targets for inclusion into Debian and so we provide a list of these projects which might be included at a later point in time provided somebody is willing to take over the packaging work.

Imaging - Debian Med imaging packages (966*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful in medical image processing.

It installs several packages supporting DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) which is the de-facto standard for medical image management. The standard defines data structures and services for the exchange of medical images and related information. The latest release has been published in 2008 and consists of 18 parts.

For more information, you can visit the NEMA homepage http://medical.nema.org/ .

The status of the official DICOM base standard plus all the supplements and correction items are summarized at David Clunie's webpage: http://www.dclunie.com/dicom-status/status.html where you'll find direct links to the most recent yearly edition ftp://medical.nema.org/medical/dicom/2008/ .

Imaging development - Debian Med packages for medical image development (733*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages which might be useful for developing applications for medical image processing.

Laboratory - Debian Med suggestions for medical laboratories (0*)

Currently Debian Med does not yet contain any software which is specifically intended to run a medical laboratory. We just provide a list of Free Software that might be used and which might be included into Debian at a later point in time provided somebody is willing to take over the packaging work.

Oncology - Debian Med packages for oncology (0*)

This metapackage will install tools that are useful for radiation oncology.

Pharmacology - Debian Med packages for pharmaceutical research (0*)

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software and documentation which is useful for pharmaceutical research.

Physics - Debian Med packages for medical physicists (132*)

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software and documentation which is useful for medical physicists in radiation oncology, diagnostics imaging and related fields.

Practice - Debian Med packages for practice management (18*)

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for practitioners to manage their practice.

Psychology - Debian Med packages for psychology (47*)

This metapackage contains dependencies for a collection of software which might be helpful for psychological research.

Rehabilitation - Debian Med packages for rehabilitation technologies (0*)

This metapackage will install tools that are useful for rehabilitation and therapy.

Research - Debian Med packages for medical research (0*)

This metapackage will install tools that are useful for medical research.

Statistics - Debian Med statistics (5*)

This metapackage will install packages which are helpful to do statistics with a special focus on tasks in medical care.

Tools - Debian Med several tools (117*)

This metapackage will install tools for several purposes in health care. Currently it contains some simple programs for Personal Health.

Typesetting - Debian Med support for typesetting and publishing (719*)

This metapackage will install Debian packages that might be helpful for typesetting and publishing in medical care and structural biology.

*To estimate the overall status of the packages in the dependencies of a metapackage a weighted severity is calculated. Done bugs are ignored and bugs in dependent and recommended packages are weighted by factor three compared to suggested packages. Release critical bugs have a much larger weight than important, while the contribution of normal bugs is even smaller and minor bugs have a very small weight. Wishlist bugs are ignored in this calculation. The resulting sum is compared to some boundaries to find a verbal form. The actual numbers need some adjustment to make real sense - this evaluation method is in testing phase.
The severities of bugs are weighted as follows:
critical10
grave10
serious10
important5
normal3
minor1
wishlist0