Debian Med: Documentation and Research

The list below includes various software projects which are of some interest to the Project. Currently, only a few of them are available as Debian packages. It is our goal, however, to include all software in which can sensibly add to a high quality Custom Debian Distribution.

For a better overview of the project's availability as a Debian package, each head row has a color code according to this scheme:

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

Official Debian packages

Medicine-HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Medicine-HOWTO/
License: GPL
Official Debian package
Some pointers to Linux software (mostly GPLed) for the medical sciences (medical applications, Medline and other bibliography tools, applications for veterinarian medicine and others).
Resmedicinae Analysis Document
http://resmedicinae.sourceforge.net/analysis/
License: GFDL
Official Debian package
Collection of requirements on medical software for medical practice.

Unofficial Debian packages

There are no projects which fall into this category.

Debian packages not available

BioMail
http://biomail.sourceforge.net/biomail/
License: GPL
Debian package not available

BioMail is a small web-based application for medical researchers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database.

Nice if you are seeking for relevant literature. Once there was an ITP for this program but no official package. Preliminary Debian package for testing purposes could be made available on request from Andreas Tille. Upstream is very interested in a Debian package.

BIOSIG
http://biosig.sourceforge.net/
License: GPL
Debian package not available
The aim of the BIOSIG project is to foster the research in biomedical signal processing. For that, it provides Matlab/Octave software. Special emphasis is put on EEG (electroencephalogram), MEG (magnetoencephalogram), and ECoG (electrocorticogram), but also other types of biosignals like ECG (electrocardiogram), EMG (electromyogram), etc. are supported.
Medical Words
http://sourceforge.net/projects/medicalwords
License: Public Domain
Debian package not available
Public Domain collection of medical terms for use in medical applications.
Project Odyssée
http://www.nautilus-info.com/odyssee.htm
License: GPL
Debian package not available
The Odyssée project is the Open Source release of portions of the Nautilus project. Nautilus has a lexicon of 35000 medical terms linked into a semantic network representing medical domain knowledge. The network is used to guide an interaction dialog with a physician to record notes in structured form. Such structured notes are used to generate standardized text progress notes. The expert domain knowledge represented in the semantic network can speed data capture by focusing the interaction on relevant topics at each point in time. Recording medical records as semantic structures rather than text has many advantages, such as less ambiguity, language independence, and greater amenability to medical reasoning (assistant) technologies. This site is in French.