Bug#1004152: ITP: malt -- sequence alignment and analysis tool to process sequencing data

[Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>]

Thanks a lot Pierre!

Am Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:25:13PM +0100 schrieb Pierre Gruet:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Debian-med team <debian-med@lists.debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-med@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : malt
>   Version         : 0.5.2
>   Upstream Author : Daniel Huson <daniel.huson@uni-tuebingen.de>
> * URL             : https://github.com/danielhuson/malt
> * License         : GPL-3+
>   Programming Lang: Java
>   Description     : sequence alignment and analysis tool to process sequencing data
> 
> MALT, an acronym for MEGAN alignment tool, is a sequence alignment and
> analysis tool designed for processing high-throughput sequencing data,
> especially in the context of metagenomics. It is an extension of MEGAN6,
> the MEGenome Analyzer and is designed to provide the input for MEGAN6,
> but can also be used independently of MEGAN6.
> 
> The core of the program is a sequence alignment engine that aligns DNA
> or protein sequences to a DNA or protein reference database in either
> BLASTN (DNA queries and DNA references), BLASTX (DNA queries and protein
> references) or BLASTP (protein queries and protein references) mode. The
> engine uses a banded-alignment algorithm with ane gap scores and BLOSUM
> substitution matrices (in the case of protein alignments). The program
> can compute both local alignments (Smith-Waterman) or semi-global
> alignments (in which reads are aligned end-to-end into reference
> sequences), the latter being more appropriate for aligning metagenomic
> reads to references.
> 
> The package will be team-maintained in Debian-med team.
> 
> 

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