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Summary
Typesetting
Debian Med support for typesetting and publishing

This metapackage will install Debian packages that might be helpful for typesetting and publishing in medical care and structural biology.

Description

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If you discover a project which looks like a good candidate for Debian Med to you, or if you have prepared an unofficial Debian package, please do not hesitate to send a description of that project to the Debian Med mailing list

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Debian Med Typesetting packages

Official Debian packages with high relevance

king
interactive system for three-dimensional vector graphics
Versions of package king
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jessie2.21.120420+dfsg-1all
buster2.23.161103+dfsg1-3all
bullseye2.23.161103+dfsg1-4all
bookworm2.24+dfsg2-1all
trixie2.24+dfsg2-2all
sid2.24+dfsg2-2all
stretch2.23.161103+dfsg1-1all
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KiNG (Kinemage, Next Generation) is an interactive system for three-dimensional vector graphics. It supports a set of graphics primitives that make it suitable for many types of graphs, plots, and other illustrations; although its first use was to display macromolecular structures for biophysical research. KiNG builds on Mage, JavaMage, and the "kinemage" (kinetic image) concept to deliver a full-featured Java application with a user-friendly interface and integrated editing features. The KiNG jar file can be used within a web page as a Java applet or Java object to promote easy access to kinemages or coordinate files from a web browser.

texlive-latex-extra
??? missing short description for package texlive-latex-extra :-(
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sid2024.20241115-1all
jessie2014.20141024-1all
stretch2016.20170123-5all
buster2018.20190227-2all
bullseye2020.20210202-3all
bookworm2022.20230122-4all
trixie2024.20241102-1all
Debtags of package texlive-latex-extra:
made-offont, tex
roleapp-data
usetypesetting
works-withfont, text
works-with-formatpdf, tex
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Screenshots of package texlive-latex-extra
Remark of Debian Med team: For biologists specifically texshade.sty is interesting

The texlive-latex-extra package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for different purposes. As a biologist you are most probably interested in

 TeXShade: http://www.uni-kiel.de/Pharmazie/chem/Prof_Beitz/texshade.htm

You might like to install texlive-latex-extra-doc as well and read the documents in

 /usr/share/doc/texlive-latex-extra-doc/latex/texshade/
texlive-science
??? missing short description for package texlive-science :-(
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jessie2014.20141024-1all
bookworm2022.20230122-4all
sid2024.20241115-1all
stretch2016.20170123-5all
buster2018.20190227-2all
trixie2024.20241102-1all
bullseye2020.20210202-3all
Debtags of package texlive-science:
fieldbiology, chemistry, electronics, mathematics, physics
made-oftex
roleapp-data
sciencepublishing
usetypesetting
works-withgraphs, text
works-with-formattex
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Remark of Debian Med team: For biologists specifically biotex.sty and textopo.sty are interesting

The texlive-science package contains a lot of interesting LaTeX styles for different sciences. As a biologist you are most probably interested in

 TeXTopo: http://www.uni-kiel.de/Pharmazie/chem/Prof_Beitz/textopo.htm

You might like to install texlive-science-doc as well and read the documents in

 /usr/share/doc/texlive-science-doc/latex/textopo/

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

biber
Much-augmented BibTeX replacement for BibLaTeX users
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bullseye2.16-1all
bookworm2.18-1all
trixie2.20-2all
sid2.20-2all
stretch2.7-2all
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The biblatex package by Philipp Lehman is becoming the definitive citation management tool for LaTeX users. Biblatex has relied on the venerable BibTeX program only for sorting and generating a very generic .bbl file without any formatting instruction. Everything else is taken care of by biblatex, which provides a powerful and flexible macro interface for authors of citation styles.

Biber offers a large superset of BibTeX functionality for BibLaTeX users. In addition it offers full UTF-8 (Unicode 6.0) capabilities, fully customisable sorting, output to GraphViz to help visualise complex crossrefs, support for remote data sources, structural validation of the data against the (customisable) data model, and a lot more.

bibus
bibliographic database
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stretch1.5.2-4all
buster1.5.2+dfsg-1all
jessie1.5.2-4all
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interfacex11
roleprogram
sciencebibliography, publishing
uitoolkitwxwidgets
useorganizing, typesetting
works-with-formatbib, odf
x11application
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Bibus is a bibliographic database which has been developed with LibreOffice/ OpenOffice.org in mind. It can directly insert citations and format the bibliographic index in an open OpenOffice.org Writer document. The main features are

  • hierarchical organization of the references with user-defined keys
  • designed for multiuser-environments (share databases between users)
  • a search engine supporting live queries
  • on-line PubMed access
  • import of PubMed (Medline), EndNote/Refer, RIS and BibTeX records.

Bibus will use an SQLite-database by default for storage (via the SQLite3 module available in Python >2.5). But it also supports MySQL-databases. If you want to use a MySQL-database, make sure, that you have the python-mysqldb package installed.

Screenshots of package bibus

Desktop tools that help inserting references in LibreOffice, or help managing PDF collections. This list is probably incomplete.

jabref-plugin-oo
??? missing short description for package jabref-plugin-oo :-(
Maintainer: gregor herrmann
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jessie2.10+ds-3all
upstream5.15
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roleplugin
sciencebibliography
suiteopenoffice
works-with-formatbib
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Newer upstream!
License: DFSG free
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Desktop tools that help inserting references in LibreOffice, or help managing PDF collections. This list is probably incomplete.

kbibtex
BibTeX editor for KDE
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bookworm0.9.90-1.1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
bullseye0.9.90-1amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
buster0.8.1-1amd64,arm64,armhf,i386
stretch0.4-4amd64,arm64,armel,armhf,i386,mips,mips64el,mipsel,ppc64el,s390x
jessie0.4-4amd64,armel,armhf,i386
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An application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format. KBibTeX can be used as a standalone program, but can also be embedded into other KDE applications (e.g. as bibliography editor into Kile).

KBibTeX can query online resources (e.g. Google scholar) via customizable search URLs. It is also able to import complete datasets from NCBI Pubmed. It also supports tagging references with keywords and manages references to local files.

BibTeX files can be exported into HTML, XML, PDF, PS and RTF format using a number of citation styles.

r-cran-qqman
R package for visualizing GWAS results using Q-Q and manhattan plots
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sid0.1.9+dfsg-1all
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stretch0.1.2-1all
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qqman is an add-on package for the R statistical environment. This package provides functions for visualizing Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) results using Manhattan plots and Quantile-Quantile plots.

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