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| author | Petar Petrov <slackalaxy@gmail.com> | 2017-10-07 17:30:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org> | 2017-10-11 06:19:49 +0700 |
| commit | c81add24acfcebc5b980d4f20d40e5a23401b2a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e66612195f9cc20c7c9de36921bc1c1392ca3ff /academic/finchtv/README | |
| parent | b4424ccb5b23f25bff04e81fe5ee3f0621c271a1 (diff) | |
academic/finchtv: Updated for version 1.3.1.
Signed-off-by: David Spencer <idlemoor@slackbuilds.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | academic/finchtv/README | 18 |
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diff --git a/academic/finchtv/README b/academic/finchtv/README index 73c987e6d8a28..97c1039339562 100644 --- a/academic/finchtv/README +++ b/academic/finchtv/README @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ FinchTV - A Brilliant Trace Viewer -Geospiza's FinchTV is the popular way to view DNA sequence traces. -FinchTV started as the only chromatogram viewer that can display an -entire trace in a scalable multi-pane view. And it leads the way with -raw data views, BLAST searching and the ability to reverse complement -sequences and traces. +FinchTV developed by Geospiza (acquired later by PerkinELmer) is the +popular way to view DNA sequence traces. FinchTV started as the only +chromatogram viewer that can display an entire trace in a scalable +multi-pane view. And it leads the way with raw data views, BLAST +searching and the ability to reverse complement sequences and traces. This is just repackaging of the ready i386 binary. It WILL work on a stock Slackware64 as well (no multilib needed). NOTE! -This program is free, but you should REGISTER in order to get it. -This means you have to use a web browser to download the "source" -tarball. +FinchTV has entered the End of Life phase, effective December 6, 2016 +and PerkinElmer will no longer provide support for FinchTV. The Linux +version is, in fact, over 10 years old. However, it offers a statically +linked executable that just works. The tarball, formerly provided by +upstream, is now hosted by the SlackBuild maintainer. |