Staden Package
DNA sequence assembly software
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The Staden Package is computer software, a set of tools for DNA sequence assembly, editing, and sequence analysis. It is open-source software, released under a BSD 3-clause license.
| Staden Package | |
|---|---|
| Original author | Rodger Staden |
| Developers | James Bonfield, et al. |
| Initial release | 1977 |
| Stable release | 2.0.0b9
/ 24 January 2012 |
| Preview release | 2.0.0b11
/ 25 April 2016 |
| Written in | C, C++, Fortran, Tcl |
| Operating system | Unix, Linux, macOS, Windows |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Bioinformatics |
| License | BSD 3-clause |
| Website | staden |
| Repository | sourceforge |
Package components
The Staden package consists of several different programs. The main components are:
History
The Staden Package was developed by Rodger Staden's group at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England, since 1977.[2][3][4] The package was available free to academic users, with 2,500 licenses issued in 2003 and an estimated 10,000 users, when funding for further development ended.[5] The package was converted to open-source in 2004, and several new versions have been released since.
During the years of active development, the Staden group published a number of widely used file formats and ideas, including the SCF file format,[6] the use of sequence quality scores to generate accurate consensus sequences,[7] and the ZTR file format.[8]
