Bug#641581: ITP: libzerg -- C library for parsing the output of NCBI BLAST programs

[Laszlo Kajan <lkajan@rostlab.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Laszlo Kajan <lkajan@rostlab.org>


* Package name    : libzerg
  Version         : 1.0.7
  Upstream Author : Apua C.M. Paquola <apuapaquola@gmail.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/libzerg/
* License         : GNU GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : C library for parsing the output of NCBI BLAST programs
  Reference       : Paquola, Apuã C M, Machado, Abimael A, Reis, Eduardo M, Da Silva, Aline M, and Verjovski-Almeida, Sergio: Zerg: a very fast BLAST parser library., Bioinformatics 19(8), volume 19, 1035–6, May 2003

Zerg is a C library for parsing the output of NCBI BLAST programs. Based on a GNU Flex-generated lexical scanner, it runs extremely fast, being especially useful for processing large volumes of data. Benchmark tests show that Zerg is over two orders of magnitude faster than some widely used BLAST parsers.