[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#796644: ITP: pbdagcon -- sequence consensus algorithm implementation based on directed acyclic graphs

[Afif Elghraoui]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Debian Med Packaging Team <debian-med-packaging at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Control: block 787977 by -1

* Package name    : pbdagcon
  Version         : git1d12e13
  Upstream Author : Pacific Biosciences <devnet at pacificbiosciences.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbdagcon
* License         : BSD**
  Programming Lang: C++, Python
  Description     : sequence consensus algorithm implementation based on directed acyclic graphs

pbdagcon is a tool that implements DAGCon (Directed Acyclic Graph Consensus),
which is a sequence consensus algorithm based on using directed acyclic graphs
to encode multiple sequence alignment.
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It uses the alignment information from blasr to align sequence reads to a
"backbone" sequence. Based on the underlying alignment directed acyclic graph,
it will be able to use the new information from the reads to find the
discrepancies between the reads and the "backbone" sequences. A dynamic
programming process is then applied to the DAG to find the optimum sequence of
bases as the consensus. The new consensus can be used as a new backbone
sequence to iteratively improve the consensus quality.

This package is part of the SMRTAnalysis suite and also a dependency of
wgs-assembler. It will be handled by the Debian Med team.

** I'm double-checking the license of this component at https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/pbdagcon/issues/40.