[Cdd-commits] r686 - projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks

[CDD Subversion Commit]

Author: tille
Date: Tue Apr  8 15:06:27 2008
New Revision: 686

Modified:
   projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio
Log:
Updated description of Celera Assembler


Modified: projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio
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--- projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio	(original)
+++ projects/med/trunk/debian-med/tasks/bio	Tue Apr  8 15:06:27 2008
@@ -821,10 +821,42 @@
 WNPP: 395843
 License: GPL
 Pkg-Description: Whole-Genome Shotgun Assembler
- This whole-genome shotgun assembler software suite is based on
- RELEASE_1-3_2004-03-17 of the Celera Assembler, released under the GNU
- GPL by Applera Corp. This set of programs was used to assemble the
- human, mouse, rat, fruit fly, and mosquito genomes.
+ Celera Assembler is scientific software for DNA research. It can
+ reconstruct long sequences of genomic DNA given the fragmentary data
+ produced by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The Celera Assembler
+ enabled many advances in genomics, including the first genome
+ sequence of a multi-cellular organism and the first diploid sequence
+ of an individual human.
+ .
+ The Celera Assembler is a member of a class of software called
+ whole-genome shotgun assemblers. The Celera Assembler is mature,
+ efficient, open-source software with a long record of contributions
+ to science. Celera Assembler is written mostly in C for unix
+ operating systems. Although it requires large compute resources to
+ resolve complex genomes, it can assemble bacterial genomes on a
+ laptop.
+ .
+ This important software is an "open source" project. Originally
+ developed at Celera Genomics, it was released under the GNU Public
+ License and deposited on a public repository (Source Forge) in
+ 2004. Scientists around the world can download, build, and run the
+ software without restriction. In addition, they can inspect the
+ source code and alter it at their own sites. Workers at JCVI and a
+ few other institutes regularly submit their code alterations to the
+ public repository.
+ .
+ JCVI has made many important contributions to Celera
+ Assembler. Scientists and engineers at JCVI are extending the code to
+ handle more and more polymorphic data sets, including environmental
+ samples. In collaboration with scientists at the University of
+ Maryland, they are adding the capability to assemble pyrosequencing
+ data (as from a 454 FLX machine) in addition to the traditional
+ Sanger sequencing data (as from an ABI 3730 machine). JCVI's efforts
+ provide the cutting edge software that genome scientists around the
+ world will need as they apply DNA sequencing technology to more and
+ more difficult problems of biology.
+ .
+ See also: http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/software/celera-assembler/overview/
 
 Depends: gbioseq
 Homepage: http://www.bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=94