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diff --git a/biology/fasta3/pkg-descr b/biology/fasta3/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9aac7813aa95 --- /dev/null +++ b/biology/fasta3/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Version 3 of the FASTA packages contains many programs for searching DNA and +protein databases and one program (prss3) for evaluating statistical +significance from randomly shuffled sequences. Several additional analysis +programs, including programs that produce local alignments, are available as +part of version 2 of the FASTA package, which is available as the port +biology/fasta. + +FASTA is described in: W. R. Pearson and D. J. Lipman (1988), "Improved +Tools for Biological Sequence Analysis", PNAS 85:2444-2448; W. R. Pearson +(1996) "Effective protein sequence comparison" Meth. Enzymol. 266:227-258; +Pearson et. al. (1997) Genomics 46:24-36; Pearson, (1999) Meth. in +Molecular Biology 132:185-219. + +The FASTA3 suite is distributed freely subject to the condition that it may +not be sold or incorporated into a commercial product. + +Author: William R Pearson <wrp@virginia.edu> +WWW: http://fasta.bioch.virginia.edu/ + +-- Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> |