Staden library for reading and writing DNA sequencing results

 This package contains the Staden io_lib, that is renamed in Debian and
 Fedora ‘staden-read’ instead of ‘read’. This library supports various DNA
 sequence read formats, in particular SCF, ABI, ALF, CTF, ZTR, SFF and SRF.
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 The io_lib from the Staden package is a library of file reading and writing
 code to provide a general purpose trace file (and Experiment File) reading
 interface. It has been compiled and tested on a variety of unix systems,
 MacOS X and MS Windows.