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authorPetar Petrov <petar.petrov@student.oulu.fi>2015-02-04 19:55:11 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2015-02-05 06:31:08 +0700
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-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.