brew cite

[sjackman]

Create a brew cite foo command that returns an URL (or optionally Bibtex) for the requested tool and its dependencies.

Usage

❯❯❯ brew cite samtools
http://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352
❯❯❯ brew cite --bib samtools
@article{Li_2009, title={The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools}, volume={25}, ISSN={1460-2059}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352}, DOI={10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352}, number={16}, journal={Bioinformatics}, publisher={Oxford University Press (OUP)}, author={Li, H. and Handsaker, B. and Wysoker, A. and Fennell, T. and Ruan, J. and Homer, N. and Marth, G. and Abecasis, G. and Durbin, R.}, year={2009}, month={Jun}, pages={2078–2079}}

Options

• -b or --bib return Bibtex entries rather than an URLs
• -1 return only the requested formulae and not their dependencies

Implementation

• The code and data lives in a GitHub repository linuxbrew/homebrew-cite.
• The data will be stored in a TSV file in the same repository with two columns, Formula and Citation.
• The --bib option uses the doi.org service to fetch the Bibtex entry. For example:

  curl -LH "Accept: text/bibliography; style=bibtex" http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btp352

• An example of a similar command is the old brew desc command that was eventually migrated into Homebrew/brew. https://github.com/telemachus/homebrew-desc/blob/master/cmd/brew-desc.rb

[sjackman]

We won't be implementing the brew cite command this term.