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-Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed
-in a single samtools-0.1.x package.
-This old version remains available from SBo as samtools-legacy
+Prior to the introduction of HTSlib, SAMtools and BCFtools were distributed
+in a single samtools-0.1.x package. This old version remains available from
+SBo as samtools-legacy.
-HTSlib has been distributed as a separate package to facilitate the writing
+HTSlib has been distributed as a separate package to facilitate the writing
of programs against the HTSlib API. HTSlib also provides the bgzip, htsfile,
-and tabix utilities, so the installation of HTSlib provides these utilities as well.
+and tabix utilities, so the installation of HTSlib provides these utilities
+as well.