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+# Template file for 'clustalw'
+pkgname=clustalw
+version=2.1
+revision=1
+
+build_style=gnu-configure
+
+
+depends="libstdc++>=4.4.0_1 glibc>=2.25_1 libgcc>=4.4.0_1"
+short_desc="Bioinformatics program for multiple sequence alignment"
+maintainer="Simon Whelan <si.whelan@gmail.com>"
+license="LGPL-v3"
+homepage="www.clustal.org/download/current"
+
+distfiles="http://www.clustal.org/download/current/clustalw-2.1.tar.gz"
+checksum=e052059b87abfd8c9e695c280bfba86a65899138c82abccd5b00478a80f49486
+