[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#827978: ITP: libfastahack -- library for indexing and sequence extraction from FASTA files

[Andreas Tille]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>

* Package name    : libfastahack
  Version         : 0.0+20160309
  Upstream Author : Erik Garrison <erik.garrison at gmail.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/ekg/fastahack
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : library for indexing and sequence extraction from FASTA files
 fastahack is a small application for indexing and extracting sequences and
 subsequences from FASTA files.  The included Fasta.cpp library provides a FASTA
 reader and indexer that can be embedded into applications which would benefit
 from directly reading subsequences from FASTA files.  The library automatically
 handles index file generation and use.
 .
 Features:
  * FASTA index (.fai) generation for FASTA files
  * Sequence extraction
  * Subsequence extraction
  * Sequence statistics (currently only entropy is provided)
 .
 Sequence and subsequence extraction use fseek64 to provide fastest-possible
 extraction without RAM-intensive file loading operations.  This makes fastahack
 a useful tool for bioinformaticists who need to quickly extract many
 subsequences from a reference FASTA sequence.


Remark: This package is a (pre-)pre-condition for some Debian Med target
software (freebayes).  It will be maintained at
    https://anonscm.debian.org/git/debian-med/libfastahack.git