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+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Gffread(MakefilePackage):
+    """gffread: GFF/GTF utility providing format conversions, region filtering,
+    FASTA sequence extraction and more"""
+
+    homepage = "http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie/gff.shtml#gffread"
+    url = "https://github.com/gpertea/gffread/releases/download/v0.12.7/gffread-0.12.7.tar.gz"
+
+    version("0.12.7", sha256="bfde1c857495e578f5b3af3c007a9aa40593e69450eafcc6a42c3e8ef08ed1f5")
+
+    def build(self, spec, prefix):
+        make("release")
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        mkdir(prefix.bin)
+        install("gffread", prefix.bin)