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.

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.