On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 03:44:07PM +0100, William Spooner wrote: > Sadly SSAHA2 uses crossmatch, which is non-free,
I have no idea about crossmatch but I'm always a fan of simply asking whether something could be relased under a free license or not. As long as nobody asks the authors will not considering to release. So has somebody just asked? (I'm sorry if this question is quite naive - but I had about 25-30% success when just trying ...) > meaning SSAHA2 is not appropriate for debian-med. I can get you the source > for ssaha, but it's so old now that I doubt anyone would still want to use it. I know where to find this source and we just agreed here that plain old ssaha is not worth spending much time into it. > The latest tool from the same group is called SMALT - this is probably worth > perusing. I believe that it uses the same k-mer index table algorithm as > SSAHA (and BLAT); i.e. is a different algorithm to the Burrows-Wheeler tools > that are so popular in the short-read world. > > http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/smalt/ Just added to the tasks file - thanks for the hint Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
