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authorwjv <wjv@FreeBSD.org>2001-06-20 22:25:54 +0800
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Update to version 2001.04.03; add installation of some documentation.
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-"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>