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author | Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-06-20 14:25:54 +0000 |
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committer | Johann Visagie <wjv@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-06-20 14:25:54 +0000 |
commit | d8c2a7d247a81b7a2c1b50da8a46164d604475b9 (patch) | |
tree | b1f6c2c5aacb1e977da30cbb537053e625741ed3 /biology/ncbi-toolkit/pkg-descr | |
parent | 5fc071c7df5bca0e4e68ec569dcbd4ab9a7ea3c3 (diff) |
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diff --git a/biology/ncbi-toolkit/pkg-descr b/biology/ncbi-toolkit/pkg-descr index 5a683434f4cb..515d58ba056b 100644 --- a/biology/ncbi-toolkit/pkg-descr +++ b/biology/ncbi-toolkit/pkg-descr @@ -1,16 +1,20 @@ -"The NCBI Software Development Toolkit was developed for the production and -distribution of GenBank, Entrez, BLAST, and related services by NCBI. We -make it freely available to the public without restriction to facilitate the -use of NCBI by the scientific community. However, please understand that -while we feel we have done a high quality job, this is not commercial -software. -The documentation lags considerably behind the software and we must make any -changes required by our data production needs. Nontheless, many people have -found it a useful and stable basis for a number of tools and applications. +The NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) development toolkit, +containing various libraries needed by NCBI applications, as well as a +software suite containing, amongst other things, NCBI BLAST 2.0. -The toolkit is available by anonymous ftp from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov" +From the README: -excerpt from NCBI toolkit README file. + The NCBI Software Development Toolkit was developed for the production and + distribution of GenBank, Entrez, BLAST, and related services by NCBI. We + make it freely available to the public without restriction to facilitate + the use of NCBI by the scientific community. However, please understand + that while we feel we have done a high quality job, this is not commercial + software. + + The documentation lags considerably behind the software and we must make + any changes required by our data production needs. Nontheless, many people + have found it a useful and stable basis for a number of tools and + applications. -- Tony Maher <tony.maher@ebioinformatics.com> FreeBSD bio-porters <bio@freebsd.net> |