PURPOSE

Harvest is a file format conversion tool for use with the Harvest tool
suite (github.com/marbl/harvest). Harvest is implemented in C++ and
uses Google Protocol Buffers for serialization.

COPYRIGHT LICENSE

Copyright © 2014, Battelle National Biodefense Institute (BNBI);
all rights reserved. Authored by: Brian Ondov, Todd Treangen, and
Adam Phillippy

This Software was prepared for the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) by the Battelle National Biodefense Institute, LLC (BNBI) as
part of contract HSHQDC-07-C-00020 to manage and operate the National
Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC), a Federally
Funded Research and Development Center.

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