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authorSam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-07 13:04:20 +0000
committerSam Lawrance <lawrance@FreeBSD.org>2006-05-07 13:04:20 +0000
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-Version 2 of the FASTA packages contains many programs for searching DNA and
-protein databases, performing sequence comparisons, producing local
-alignments, and other related tasks.
+Version 2 of the FASTA packages contains many programs for performing
+sequence comparisons, producing local alignments, and other related tasks
+for analysing DNA and proteins.
-Currently, the FASTA2 suite is in maintenance mode. Updated versions of ONLY
-the searching programs are available in version 3 of the FASTA packages,
-which may be found in the port biology/fasta3.
+Currently, the FASTA2 suite is in maintenance mode. This package provides
+the analysis tools from FASTA2. The searching programs are available in
+version 3 of the FASTA packages, which may be found in the port
+biology/fasta3.
FASTA is described in: W. R. Pearson and D. J. Lipman (1988), "Improved
Tools for Biological Sequence Analysis", PNAS 85:2444- 2448, and W. R.
@@ -16,5 +17,3 @@ not be sold or incorporated into a commercial product.
Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu>
WWW: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/
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--- Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com>