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diff --git a/academic/spidey/README b/academic/spidey/README index 0912181c25..6e7c198210 100644 --- a/academic/spidey/README +++ b/academic/spidey/README @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ -Spidey is an mRNA-to-genomic alignment program. For a complete -description of how Spidey works, visit -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/spidey/spideydoc.html. +Spidey: an mRNA-to-genomic alignment program. -This is just repackaging of the ready binary for x86 and will not run -on x86_64. It will probably work just fine on a Slackware multilib -box, but we do not support that ;). If you want to build spidey from -source, you should download and compile the NCBI toolkit. For more -information: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/spidey/spideysource.html +Spidey is a tool for aligning one or more mRNA sequences to a given +genomic sequence. It was written with two main goals in mind: +1) find good alignments regardless of intron size +2) avoid getting confused by nearby pseudogenes and paralogs. + +The following programs provide a GUI to run spidey: +-ugene +-perlprimer + +This is just repackaging of precompiled binaries: +- x86 platform: the executable is provided by upstream (NCBI). +- x86_64 platform: the executable is kindly provided by the UniPro +Ugene project, where it is part of their External Tools meta-package. |