Source: tabix Section: unknown Priority: extra Maintainer: Charles Plessy Build-Depends: cdbs, debhelper (>= 8) Standards-Version: 3.8.4 Homepage: http://samtools.sourceforge.net/tabix.shtml Vcs-Git: git://git.debian.org/debian-med/tabix.git Vcs-Browser: http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-med/tabix.git;a=summary Package: tabix Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: generic indexer for TAB-delimited genome position files Tabix indexes files where some columns indicate sequence coordinates: name (usually a chromosme), start and stop. The input data file must be position sorted and compressed by bgzip (provided in this package), which has a gzip like interface. After indexing, tabix is able to quickly retrieve data lines by chromosomal coordinates. Fast data retrieval also works over network if an URI is given as a file name.