I am unclear on copyright permissions.

[sam-the-programmer]

I am unsure, it is a slight grey area for me, but would it be possible to use the match.tsv dataset (not all columns, just the family phylum, genus, order, class, species and nucleotide sequences) for a Python neural network module? I'd like to have some datasets that you can load automatically in my module. I will eventually publish it on PyPI and notify you if you'd like to see. Would this be possible without breaching the License?

[rvosa]

You certainly have our permission to use these data for that, and in fact I'm rather interested in what you are trying to do - could you say a bit more about that?

BTW so the MIT licensing basically means for us that we would like you to cite/reference our work where relevant, that's all.

[sam-the-programmer]

Well, it is presently unreleased, but I am in the process of refining my neural network module, that'll be written in raw Python so it can be run on other devices that support Python but not things like tensorflow and keras. An example is various amateur robotics products such as EV3 or other similar things.
I can later provide a link to it, I'll send it to you on here or somewhere on this page. I wanted to have some built-in datasets for usage without needing to process data yourself. I'll eventually make it available through pip so you can install it like any other external module. I'll be sure to cite you in many places so it is clear.

Thank you very much!

[rvosa]

Interesting! So, how will you use the nn on our data? To train some kind of classifier?

[sam-the-programmer]

It'd probably be for deducing the species from the nucleotide sequence. It is a great, comprehensive database you've got!

[sam-the-programmer]

@rvosa It is not finished yet, and the DNA data is not presently fully loaded in with a method in the Python module, but here is a link to the easyNeuron neural networks module. I may also start a few projects with this database.

Link is here.

[sam-the-programmer]

Hi there, @rvosa,

Sorry 😬, about the module, which has not been developed 🛠 for in a while, but the development is picking itself back up at the moment, as I have made the decision to redesign 🎨 the whole thing. I'll be sure to add your database 📊 and credit it!

Many Thanks.