MetabolicAtlas / standard-GEM

The standard for open-source GEMs on GitHub
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Support for repositories with multiple GEMs (f. ex. strain collections) #37

Open famosab opened 1 year ago

famosab commented 1 year ago

Description of the issue:

So far only singular GEM repositories fit within the standard-GEM template. While some parts can easily be used with multiple GEMs, such as the overall structure, other things fall short when multiple GEMs are hosted in one repository.

Expected feature/value/output:

There are two ways how to approach this:

  1. One could either extend this repository to be applicable to repositories with multiple GEMs
  2. Or create a separate template for multiple-GEM-repositories

A few changes that directly came to my mind are:

Current feature/value/output:

Not available.

I hereby confirm that I have:

draeger commented 1 year ago

Just a very minor note: I'd keep the model directory without the plural form. Rationale: When talking about the source code of a program, we also typically refer to multiple source files. Still, it is not called source codes. The singular is appropriate here as an unmarked form.