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spam in the registry ? #534

Closed foreveremain closed 2 years ago

foreveremain commented 2 years ago

See https://bio.tools/integrative_rrna_solutions for instance.. a whole block of them seem to have been registered https://bio.tools/t?sort=additionDate&ord=desc

magnuspalmblad commented 2 years ago

Agree - these should be removed immediately.

hansioan commented 2 years ago

The question here is: are all those entries actually tools or just sequencing methods?

Because if there is a suite of tools that has individual components (best thing I can come up with now is bedtools), it would be good to have the individual components (that do a certain thing well independently of the others) as well as a main tool that just describes the suite itself, but does not get into details about the individual tools.

From what I can see these entries seem to be related to technologies related to sequencing and usually "lab" stuff, rather than tools. It also looks like they are providing some "services" related to analysis pipelines (i.e. pay us and we will produce and analyze yout data).

In that case they should be deleted because they are not relevant, these look more like advertising some services, but not really tools... however (I'm being the devil's advocate here) perhaps some people are willing to pay for such services.

Anyway I don't think these entries should be in bio.tools, in a similar way then Illumina could also register all their products as tools and that also would not make sense.

Anyone else have a different opinion or just delete? @bio-tools/core-dev

mr-c commented 2 years ago

The linked example is not a tool, it is a sequencing + analysis service. It should be deleted.

hansioan commented 2 years ago

They have been removed. The weird thing is that we found another set of a few hundred "tools" from 2 other sequencing companies... those will also be removed... they don't even try, they use the API and add the minimum requirements only. Perhaps it's time to consider some blacklisting functionality....

Thanks @foreveremain for reporting this and @magnuspalmblad and @mr-c for the comments!

foreveremain commented 2 years ago

Very welcome! The fight goes on :)

On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, 14:00 Hans Ienasescu, @.***> wrote:

They have been removed. The weird thing is that we found another set of a few hundred "tools" from 2 other sequencing companies... those will also be removed... they don't even try, they use the API and add the minimum requirements only. Perhaps it's time to consider some blacklisting functionality....

Thanks @foreveremain https://github.com/foreveremain for reporting this and @magnuspalmblad https://github.com/magnuspalmblad and @mr-c https://github.com/mr-c for the comments!

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