sra-tools: Rewrite DESCR to be more introductory

[Jason W. Bacon (via pkgsrc-wip) <commit-notify%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

Module Name:	pkgsrc-wip
Committed By:	Jason W. Bacon <bacon%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Pushed By:	outpaddling
Date:		Sun Nov 17 17:39:45 2024 -0600
Changeset:	67d1a8f1ab32a6ba20f04091fbe8c75663f1a21a

Modified Files:
	sra-tools/DESCR

Log Message:
sra-tools: Rewrite DESCR to be more introductory

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diffstat:
 sra-tools/DESCR | 23 +++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diffs:
diff --git a/sra-tools/DESCR b/sra-tools/DESCR
index 84026b9986..40b82b646d 100644
--- a/sra-tools/DESCR
+++ b/sra-tools/DESCR
@@ -1,16 +1,7 @@
-SRA tools is a toolkit for using data in the INSDC Sequence Read
-Archives.  SRAs operated by the International Nucleotide Sequence
-Database Collaboration house sequence reads and alignments generated
-by "next-gen" sequencers.  SRA tools allows conversion of .sra
-files, which INSDC SRAs maintain, from/to other formats that the
-'next-gen' sequencers generate including:
-
-* csfasta/csqual (ABI SOLiD)
-* fastq (and fasta for writing)
-* hdf5 (PacBio, reading only)
-* qseq (older Illumina)
-* sam (writing only) / bam (reading only)
-* sff
-
-The toolkit uses the NCBI-VDB back-end enabling seamless access to
-remote SRA data and local SRA files.
+The SRA Toolkit and SDK from NCBI is a collection of tools and
+libraries for using data in the INSDC (International Nucleotide
+Sequence Database Collaboration) SRA (Sequence Read Archives).  The
+SRA house sequence reads and alignments generated by DNA/RNA
+sequencers.  The SRA Toolkit facilitates downloading sequence data,
+performing filtering and conversions on-the-fly, thus saving enormous
+amounts of time, bandwidth, and storage.