[med-svn] r11218 - trunk/packages/wgs-assembler/trunk/debian

[Andreas Tille]

Author: tille
Date: 2012-06-05 16:52:11 +0000 (Tue, 05 Jun 2012)
New Revision: 11218

Modified:
   trunk/packages/wgs-assembler/trunk/debian/control
Log:
Try to merge long description and description from tasks file while leaving out some advertising stuff which is not relevant for the user.


Modified: trunk/packages/wgs-assembler/trunk/debian/control
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--- trunk/packages/wgs-assembler/trunk/debian/control	2012-06-05 16:39:51 UTC (rev 11217)
+++ trunk/packages/wgs-assembler/trunk/debian/control	2012-06-05 16:52:11 UTC (rev 11218)
@@ -15,14 +15,33 @@
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Description: Whole-Genome DNA sequence assembler
+ Celera Assembler is scientific software for DNA research. It can
+ reconstruct long sequences of genomic DNA given the fragmentary data
+ produced by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The Celera Assembler
+ enabled many advances in genomics, including the first genome
+ sequence of a multi-cellular organism and the first diploid sequence
+ of an individual human.
+ .
  WGS stands for 'whole genome shotgun' and refers to the concept
  to perform an assembly of large genomes from many smallish random
- reads.
+ reads.  Although it requires large compute resources to resolve
+ complex genomes, it can assemble bacterial genomes on a  laptop.
  .
- The assembler was originally developed by Celera and is of strong
- historic value. It was licensed as open source and since extended 
- to provide hybrid assemblies across an expanding number of sequence 
- types.
+ The assembler was originally developed by Celera.  It provides hybrid
+ assemblies across an expanding number of sequence types.
+ .
+ JCVI has made many important contributions to Celera
+ Assembler. Scientists and engineers at JCVI are extending the code to
+ handle more and more polymorphic data sets, including environmental
+ samples. In collaboration with scientists at the University of
+ Maryland, they are adding the capability to assemble pyrosequencing
+ data (as from a 454 FLX machine) in addition to the traditional
+ Sanger sequencing data (as from an ABI 3730 machine). JCVI's efforts
+ provide the cutting edge software that genome scientists around the
+ world will need as they apply DNA sequencing technology to more and
+ more difficult problems of biology.
+ .
+ See also: http://www.jcvi.org/cms/research/software/celera-assembler/overview/
 
 Package: wgs-kmer
 Architecture: any