Bug#992987: RFP: pooler -- Optimise DNA sequencing primer-set combinations

[Silas S. Brown <ssb22@cam.ac.uk>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

Would the Debian Med team be interested in Primer Pooler
for Debian's Next Generation Sequencing section?

Primer Pooler has been used and cited in cancer research,
plant science and climatology, and I am also aware of its
use at a national food standards agency and other places.

It should be an easy package to maintain, being a single
C binary and man page, and it's quite stable now (the last
few updates were changing the wording of some messages in
response to occasional user misunderstandings).  I could
probably maintain it myself if I had a little help with
the initial stage of making it Debian-compliant.  (I am
the upstream developer.)

License is Apache 2, and there is a FreeBSD package, see
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/biology/pooler/

Upstream is http://ssb22.user.srcf.net/pooler/
or in Git: https://github.com/ssb22/PrimerPooler

Thanks.

Silas