[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#1014210: ITP: libslow5lib -- library for reading & writing SLOW5 files

[Nilesh Patra]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Subject: ITP: libslow5lib -- library for reading & writing SLOW5 files
Package: wnpp
Owner: Nilesh Patra <nilesh at debian.org>
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : libslow5lib
  Version         : 0.5.1
  Upstream Author : Hasindu Gamaarachchi, Sasha Jenner, Hiruna Samarakoon
* URL             : https://github.com/hasindu2008/slow5lib
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : library for reading & writing SLOW5 files
 Slow5lib is a software library for reading & writing SLOW5 files.
 Slow5lib is designed to facilitate use of data in SLOW5 format by third-
 party software packages. Existing packages that read/write data in FAST5
 format can be easily modified to support SLOW5.
 .
 SLOW5 is a new file format for storing signal data from Oxford Nanopore
 Technologies (ONT) devices. SLOW5 was developed to overcome inherent
 limitations in the standard FAST5 signal data format that prevent
 efficient, scalable analysis and cause many headaches for developers.
 SLOW5 can be encoded in human-readable ASCII format, or a more compact
 and efficient binary format (BLOW5) - this is analogous to the seminal
 SAM/BAM format for storing DNA sequence alignments. The BLOW5 binary
 format supports *zlib* (DEFLATE) compression, or other compression
 methods, thereby minimising the data storage footprint while still
 permitting efficient parallel access. Detailed benchmarking experiments
 have shown that SLOW5 format is an order of magnitude faster and
 significantly smaller than FAST5.

Remark: This package is maintained by Debian Med Packaging Team at
   https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libslow5lib