svn commit: r370220 - in head/biology: . ncbi-blast

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> Log:
>   Add new port biology/ncbi-blast
>   
>   PR:		190854
>   Submitted by:	Jason Bacon
>   
>   The Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) finds regions of local
>   similarity between sequences. The program compares nucleotide or protein
>   sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical
>   significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and
>   evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify
>   members of gene families.

I wish I had caught this in time.

This is wrong.  The port you committed installs BLAST+, not BLAST.
These are two significantly different programs which implement the same
algorithm.  While the former is intended as a successor to the latter,
they are not interchangeable.  Many applications which use BLAST have
not yet been, and may never be, ported to BLAST+, and this port stands
in the way of a BLAST port.

Since the authors, in their infinite stup^H^H^H^Hwisdom, decided to
start numbering BLAST+ versions where BLAST left off, there is no way to
fix this without either a) bumping PORTEPOCH or b) naming the BLAST port
blast-legacy or something similar, while renaming this one to blast+ or
blast-plus.

DES
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