[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#968716: ITP: shasta -- nanopore whole genome assembly (binaries and scripts)

[Shayan Doust]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: shasta -- nanopore whole genome assembly (binaries and scripts)
Package: wnpp
Owner: Shayan Doust <hello at shayandoust.me>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : shasta
  Version         : 0.5.1
  Upstream Author : Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
* URL             : https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/shasta
* License         : Expat
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : nanopore whole genome assembly (binaries and scripts)
 De novo assembly from Oxford Nanopore reads. The goal of the Shasta long
 read assembler is to rapidly produce accurate assembled sequence using
 as input DNA reads generated by Oxford Nanopore flow cells.
 .
 Computational methods used by the Shasta assembler include:
 .
  * Using a run-length representation of the read sequence. This makes
    the assembly process more resilient to errors in homopolymer
    repeat counts, which are the most common type of errors in Oxford
    Nanopore reads.
 .
  * Using in some phases of the computation a representation of the read
    sequence based on markers, a fixed subset of short k-mers (k ≈ 10).
 .
 Shasta assembly quality is comparable or better than assembly quality
 achieved by other long read assemblers.
 .
 This package contains the executable binaries (tools) and
 accommodating scripts.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian Med Packaging Team at
   https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/shasta