The Staden Package is computer
software
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At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...
, a set of tools for DNA
sequence assembly
In bioinformatics, sequence assembly refers to aligning and merging fragments from a longer DNA sequence in order to reconstruct the original sequence. This is needed as DNA sequencing technology might not be able to 'read' whole genomes in one ...
, editing, and sequence analysis. It is
open-source software
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, released under a
BSD
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3-clause license.
Package components
The Staden package consists of several different programs. The main components are:
* pregap4 – base calling with
Phred, end clipping, and vector trimming
* trev – trace viewing and editing
* gap4 – sequence assembly, contig editing, and finishing
* gap5 – assembly visualising, editing, and finishing of NGS data
* Spin – DNA and protein sequence analysis
History
The Staden Package was developed by Rodger Staden's group at the
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is a research institute in Cambridge, England, involved in the revolution in molecular biology which occurred in the 1950–60s. Since then it has remained a major medical r ...
, Cambridge, England, since 1977.
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.
The package was converted to
open-source
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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,
the use of sequence quality scores to generate accurate consensus sequences,
and the ZTR file format.
See also
*
Genome Compiler
*
Phred base calling
*
Phrap
*
Consed
*
CodonCode Aligner
*
MacVector
MacVector is a commercial sequence analysis application for Apple Macintosh computers running Mac OS X. It is intended to be used by Molecular biology, molecular biologists to help analyze, design, research and document their experiments in the la ...
*
UGENE
UGENE is computer software for bioinformatics. It works on personal computer operating systems such as Windows, macOS, or Linux. It is released as free and open-source software, under a GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
UGENE helps biolo ...
*
Vector NTI
Vector NTI was a commercial bioinformatics software package used by many life scientists in the early 2000s to work, among other things, with nucleic acids and proteins '' in silico''. It allowed researchers to, for example, plan a DNA cloning ...
References
External links
*{{Official website, staden.sourceforge.net
Bioinformatics software
Computational science