[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#819355: ITP: augustus -- gene prediction in eukaryotic genomes

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sascha Steinbiss <sascha at steinbiss.name>

* Package name    : augustus
  Version         : 3.2.1
  Upstream Author : Lizzy Gerischer, Oliver Keller, Stefanie König, Lars Romoth, Mario Stanke <mario.stanke at uni-greifswald.de>
* URL             : http://bioinf.uni-greifswald.de/augustus/ 
* License         : Artistic
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : gene prediction in eukaryotic genomes

AUGUSTUS is a software for gene prediction in eukaryotic genomic sequences
that is based on a generalized hidden Markov model, which is a probabilistic
model of a sequence and its gene structure. After learning gene structures
from a reference annotation, AUGUSTUS uses the HMM to recognize genes in a new
sequence and annotates it with the regions of identified genes. External hints,
e.g. from RNA sequencing, EST or protein alignments etc. can be used to guide
and improve the gene finding process. The result is the set of most likely gene
structures that comply with all given user constraints, if such gene
structures exist.
AUGUSTUS already includes prebuilt HMMs for many species, as well as scripts
to train custom models using annotated genomes.

This package will be maintained under the umbrella of the Debian Med
Packaging Team.