Bug#810600: ITP: minimap -- tool to find approximate mapping positions between long sequences

[Sascha Steinbiss <satta@tetrinetsucht.de>]

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

* Package name    : minimap
  Version         : 0.2 
  Upstream Author : Heng Li <lh3@me.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/lh3/minimap
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : tool to find approximate mapping positions between long sequences

Minimap is an experimental tool to efficiently find multiple approximate
mapping positions between two sets of long sequences, such as between
reads and reference genomes, between genomes and between long noisy reads.
Minimap does not generate alignments as of now and because of this, it is
usually tens of times faster than mainstream aligners. 
It does not replace mainstream aligners, but it can be useful to simply
and quickly identify long approximate matches at moderate divergence among
a huge collection of sequences. For this task, it is much faster than most
existing tools.

This software will be maintained by the Debian Med Packaging team.