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+# Updated to v2.1.3 by
+# R.QIAO <rob.qiao@flinders.edu.au>
+# DeepThought, Flinders University
+# Update: Petr Král (INUITS)
+
+easyblock = 'CMakeMake'
+
+name = 'IQ-TREE'
+version = '2.3.6'
+
+# HTTPS is not working
+homepage = 'http://www.iqtree.org/'
+description = """Efficient phylogenomic software by maximum likelihood"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'gompi', 'version': '2023a'}
+# Including 'usempi' will take precedence and override IQTREE_FLAGS and produces only 'iqtree-mpi' binary
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/iqtree/iqtree2/archive/refs/tags/']
+sources = ['v%(version)s.tar.gz']
+patches = [
+    'IQ-TREE-2.3.5_use_EB_LSD2.patch',
+]
+checksums = [
+    {'v2.3.6.tar.gz': '2d389ea74e19773496363cd68270b341ac7cc47c60e7f32859682403b34744cf'},
+    {'IQ-TREE-2.3.5_use_EB_LSD2.patch': 'b4578b01f06ae52b94b332622c0f6630497cd29cb61010f58f7c5018c2c32a5f'},
+]
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('CMake', '3.26.3'),
+    ('Eigen', '3.4.0'),
+]
+dependencies = [
+    ('zlib', '1.2.13'),
+    ('Boost', '1.82.0'),
+    ('LSD2', '2.4.1'),
+]
+
+local_conf_opts = ' -DUSE_LSD2=ON '
+configopts = [
+    '-DIQTREE_FLAGS=omp' + local_conf_opts,
+    '-DIQTREE_FLAGS=mpi -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="$MPICC" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="$MPICXX"' + local_conf_opts,
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/iqtree2', 'bin/iqtree2-mpi'],
+    'dirs': [],
+}
+
+sanity_check_commands = [
+    "iqtree2 --help",
+    "mkdir -p $TMPDIR/{test-omp,test-mpi}",
+    "cd $TMPDIR/test-omp && cp -a %(installdir)s/example.phy . && iqtree2 -s example.phy -redo",
+    "cd $TMPDIR/test-mpi && cp -a %(installdir)s/example.phy . && mpirun -np 1 iqtree2-mpi -s example.phy -redo",
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'bio'