Bug#793907: ITP: tantan -- low complexity and tandem repeat masker for biosequences

[Sascha Steinbiss <satta@tetrinetsucht.de>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Sascha Steinbiss <satta@tetrinetsucht.de>

* Package name    : tantan
  Version         : 13
  Upstream Author : Martin Frith <tantan@cbrc.jp>
* URL             : http://www.cbrc.jp/tantan/
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : low complexity and tandem repeat masker for biosequences

tantan is a tool to mask simple regions (low complexity and short-period tandem
repeats) in DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. The aim of tantan is to prevent
false predictions when searching for homologous regions between two sequences.
Simple repeats often align strongly to each other, causing false homology
predictions.

This tool is very useful in conjunction with fast aligners like LAST.
See http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25172925 for a good use case
example.

The tantan package will be maintained by the Debian Med Packaging Team.