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+# $Id: Portfile,v 1.1 2004/06/16 15:03:24 olegb Exp $
+PortSystem	1.0
+name            EMBOSS
+version         2.8.0
+categories      science
+maintainers     contact1@absentia.com
+description	Molecular Biology software analysis package
+long_description  	EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package \
+        		specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology user \
+        		community. The software automatically copes with data \
+			in a variety of formats and even allows transparent \
+			retrieval of sequence data from the web.
+homepage        http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMBOSS/
+master_sites    ftp://ftp.uk.embnet.org/pub/EMBOSS/
+checksums  	md5 5692e52632546dfe4103b51dd1eaa3c3