Rebranding (name change)

jblachly commented 3 years ago

When we started, dhtslib was merely a wrapper over htslib.

Today, it is more extensive and feature filled than -- as far as I can tell -- most or all of the other htslib wrappers in other languages, adding even more than just some higher-level interfaces to htslib primitives (with RAII naturally), but also including BED and GFF3 readers, CIGAR manipulations, and finally, Typesafe Coordinates.

In light of this, I think we should rebrand. I have mixed feelings about including d (or D) in the library/package title, and think we should probably (but not definitely) also include something along the theme of sequencing, bioinformatics, or more narrowly, "HTS".

Potential choices:

dseq (too similar to DESeq R package)
seqd, seq-d
SEQeD / SeqeD / Seqed / seqed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seked with pyramid logo)
htsd, hts-d
dhts
DiHTS ("ditz") or DiHTSy ("ditzy")
Bioinformagic
?

Given the potential for imagery/logos, and simple name, I am leaning toward one of the variants of seqed

jblachly commented 3 years ago

seqed is also apparently an ancient bioinformatics tool no longer in use AFAICT

https://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/gcg/unix/seqed.html

charlesgregory commented 3 years ago

At first glance, I am partial to dhts, seqd, SEQeD.

charlesgregory commented 3 years ago

Looks to be narrowed to dhts or a seqed variant.

charlesgregory commented 3 years ago

Will defer for now and likely make a gradual package renaming over time.

blachlylab / dhtslib

Rebranding (name change) #102