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+The Galaxy tool wrappers contained in this tool shed repository rely on software developed by 
+the NCBI Sequence Read Archive: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?view=software. 
+Use of SRA Toolkit software herin should comply with the GPL v2 or greater.
+
+Copyright (C) 2013  Matthew Shirley
+
+    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+    the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+    (at your option) any later version.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+    GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+    
+INSTALLATION
+
+This software release was designed to run under Linux, MacOSX operating systems on Intel x86-compatible 64 bit architectures.
+
+Build Requirements:
+  ar 
+  bash
+  make
+  gcc, g++
+  libxml2
+  libcurl4
+  zlib
+  
+On a debian based Linux OS use:
+
+  apt-get install build-essential libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev zlib-dev
+  
+CONTROLLED-ACCESS DATA
+
+Encrypted, controlled-access data is not supported in this version of the SRA Toolkit Galaxy tool shed.
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