navpa

Navpa is non-software, deriving its name from nav pa', Klingon for paper town. Paper towns, aslo known as phantom settlements, were historically used to detect plagiarism and possible copyright violation published works, such as maps and dictionaries (see also the excellent book by the same name by author and YouTuber John Green).

The purpose of creating navpa is not primarily to detect copyright or license violations, though it can be used to track uncritical copying and republishing derivatives of the primary software annotations from the bio.tools software registry. It can also be used to test that any services building on this, or other, registries can handle the special case of a tool with no inputs or outputs.

As non-software, navpa is fittingly written entirely in Whitespace, and the codebase consists of a single file, navpa.ws, which is empty. An empty file is technically a valid Whitespace program, doing nothing. It does not produce output of any kind, perform any operations, or cause any errors. This is probably not a very useful software. On the other hand, it is probably mostly harmless.