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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 import *
+
+
+class PyPybedtools(PythonPackage):
+    """Python wrapper -- and more -- for Aaron Quinlan's BEDTools"""
+
+    homepage = "http://daler.github.io/pybedtools"
+    url      = "https://github.com/daler/pybedtools/archive/v0.6.9.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.6.9', sha256='2639e80917999e76572017fd93757e8d7ceb384f0b92647ccfdd23a0d60def7c')
+
+    depends_on('bedtools2', type='run')
+    depends_on('py-cython', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pysam', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-pandas', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-six', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-numpy', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('py-setuptools', type='build')