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+name = 'SAMtools'
+version = '1.13'
+
+homepage = 'https://www.htslib.org/'
+description = """SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, 
+ including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCC', 'version': '12.3.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/%(namelower)s/%(namelower)s/releases/download/%(version)s']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_BZ2]
+checksums = ['616ca2e051cc8009a1e9c01cfd8c7caf8b70916ddff66f3b76914079465f8c60']
+
+# The htslib component of SAMtools >= 1.4 uses zlib, bzip2 and lzma compression.
+# The latter is currently provided by XZ.
+dependencies = [
+    ('ncurses', '6.4'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.13'),
+    ('bzip2', '1.0.8'),
+    ('XZ', '5.4.2'),
+    ('cURL', '8.0.1'),
+]
+
+moduleclass = 'bio'
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