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A source code of https://ugene.net website written in Jekyll
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Links are not standardized #45

Open EvelinaBiserova opened 3 years ago

EvelinaBiserova commented 3 years ago

See list of links similar to

http://archive.ugene.net/downloads/:

https://f000.backblazeb2.com/file/uniprougene/:

https://github.com/ugeneunipro/ugene/releases/download/38.1/ugene-38.1-*.exe:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/:

http://ugene.net/:

Is it possible to make at least some of links similar?

UPD: updated on 14.05.21.

yalgaer commented 3 years ago

We have several kind of download links for different reasons:

1) ugene.net - it is part of the web site. We can store any kind of data here (images/small read-only docs).

2) github.com: we host our release packages on GitHub starting from v 34.

3) B2 links: we store big old releases/youtube videos today (pre-github) for free (today). Later we can start paying for this hosting and add more data there..

4) archive.ugene.net - here we host 100Gb+ data for NGS tools for free. This is old and outdated data. I see no future for these data sets unless someone will volunteer to support that tools/datasets.

5) drive.google.com/drive/folders/ - here we store small individual downloadable documents. We use it by historical reasons.

6) ugeneunipro.github.io - there should be no such links anymore.

Finally IMO we should have only github & b2 links, but this task is out of scope (has too low priority) today. The main goal today is to have all links working for users.

EvelinaBiserova commented 3 years ago

archive.ugene.net - here we host 100Gb+ data for NGS tools for free. This is old and outdated data. I see no future for these data sets unless someone will volunteer to support that tools/datasets.

Based on the message "Error configuring NCBI Taxonomy to use with Metagenomics workflow" from our email, the NGS data is still being downloaded. What is required of a volunteer to support that tools/datasets?

yalgaer commented 3 years ago

We are not producers for that data: this data has its original location. First, I think it would be good if the data is downloaded from the original sources.

Next, we have different NGS data-sets and some of these data-sets are for tools that are not supported/fixed/updated by the original authors. IMO there is no reason to support such complex and not popular workflows for us today as long with their data.

A volunteer should check all the tools, decide which data is valid and is not and find a better way/server to make it downloadable for users.