[Debian-med-packaging] ITP: ABySS -- de novo, parallel, short-read assembler

[Shaun Jackman]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Package name: abyss
Version: 1.2.7
Upstream Author: sjackman at bcgsc.ca
URL: http://www.bcgsc.ca/platform/bioinfo/software/abyss
License: free for academic use
Description: a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler
 ABySS is a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler that is
 designed for short reads. It may be used to assemble genome or
 transcriptome sequence data.  Parallelization is achieved using MPI,
 OpenMP and pthread.
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 To cite your use of ABySS, please reference
 ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data. Simpson JT,
 Wong K, Jackman SD, Schein JE, Jones SJ, Birol I. Genome Research,
 2009-June.