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+# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
+# Author: Pablo Escobar Lopez
+# Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
+# Biozentrum - University of Basel
+# 1.4.1 modified by:
+# Adam Huffman
+# The Francis Crick Institute
+
+easyblock = "Bundle"
+
+name = 'khmer'
+version = '2.1.1'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%(pyver)s'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/'
+description = """ In-memory nucleotide sequence k-mer counting, filtering, graph traversal and more """
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel', 'version': '2017a'}
+
+# this is a bundle of Python packages
+exts_defaultclass = 'PythonPackage'
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.13'),
+]
+
+exts_list = [
+    ('bz2file', '0.98', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/b/bz2file'],
+        'checksums': ['64c1f811e31556ba9931953c8ec7b397488726c63e09a4c67004f43bdd28da88'],
+    }),
+    ('screed', '1.0', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/screed'],
+        'checksums': ['5db69f8c413a984ade62eb8344a6eb2be26555d74be86d38512673c1cf621b91'],
+    }),
+    ('khmer', '2.1.1', {
+        'source_urls': ['https://github.com/ged-lab/khmer/archive/'],
+        'source_tmpl': 'v%(version)s.tar.gz',
+        'checksums': ['39981730c2e08ee183c5ce6ce80cfe2bd6d813cfa37b9ae1f7be0dd1a01dae85'],
+    }),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ["bin/%s" % x for x in ["count-median.py", "extract-long-sequences.py", "filter-abund.py",
+                                     "load-into-counting.py", "sample-reads-randomly.py"]],
+    'dirs': ["lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/khmer-%(version)s-py%(pyshortver)s-linux-x86_64.egg"],
+}
+
+modextrapaths = {'PYTHONPATH': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages']}
+
+moduleclass = 'bio'