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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# 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 terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Corset(Package):
+    """Corset is a command-line software program to go from a de novo
+       transcriptome assembly to gene-level counts."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Oshlack/Corset/wiki"
+    url      = "https://github.com/Oshlack/Corset/releases/download/version-1.06/corset-1.06-linux64.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.06', '0a6d0bb1f2d1bdbcb8b47656a7f12f23')
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        url = 'https://github.com/Oshlack/Corset/releases/download/version-{0}/corset-{0}-linux64.tar.gz'
+        return url.format(version)
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        mkdirp(prefix.bin)
+        install('corset', prefix.bin)
+        install('corset_fasta_ID_changer', prefix.bin)