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+Galaxy wrapper for SNAP
+========================
+
+This wrapper is copyright 2016-2017 by Yating Liu
+
+This is a wrapper for the gene prediction tool SNAP. SNAP is a general purpose gene finding program suitable for both eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. SNAP is an acroynm for Semi-HMM-based Nucleic Acid
+Parser.
+
+Reference
+----------------------
+
+    Korf I. Gene finding in novel Genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:59
+
+Installation
+-----------------------
+
+To install SNAP, please download SNAP from
+
+http://korflab.ucdavis.edu/Software/snap-2013-11-29.tar.gz
+
+and follow the installation instractions. The software is routinely compiled and tested on Mac OS X. It should compile
+fine on any Linux/Unix type operating systems.
+The default compiler is gcc. If you have gcc installed, the easiest is to just compile as:
+```
+  make
+```
+
+The ZOE environment variable is used by SNAP to find the HMM files. Set this
+to the directory containing this file. For example, if you unpackaged the tar-ball in /usr/local/snap, set the ZOE environment variable to /usr/local/snap
+
+```
+    setenv ZOE /usr/local/snap # csh, tcsh, etc
+```
+  or
+```
+    export ZOE=/usr/local/snap # sh, bash, etc
+```
+To install the wrapper copy the snap folder in the galaxy tools and modify the $GALAXY_ROOT/config/tool_conf.xml file to make the tool available to Galaxy. For example:
+```
+<tool file="galaxy/tools/myTools/snap/snap.xml" />
+```
+
+
+
+
+