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+{stdenv, fetchurl, readline, perl, libharu, libX11, libpng, libXt, zlib}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "emboss-6.6.0";
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "ftp://emboss.open-bio.org/pub/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-6.6.0.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "7184a763d39ad96bb598bfd531628a34aa53e474db9e7cac4416c2a40ab10c6e";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ readline perl libharu libpng libX11 libXt zlib ];
+
+  configureFlags = [ "--with-hpdf=${libharu}" "--with-pngdriver=${zlib}" ];
+
+  postConfigure = ''
+    sed -i 's@$(bindir)/embossupdate@true@' Makefile
+  '';
+
+  meta = {
+    description     = "The European Molecular Biology Open Software Suite";
+    longDescription = ''EMBOSS is a free Open Source software analysis package
+    specially developed for the needs of the molecular biology (e.g. EMBnet)
+    user community, including libraries. The software automatically copes with
+    data in a variety of formats and even allows transparent retrieval of
+    sequence data from the web.''; 
+    license     = "GPL2";
+    homepage    = http://emboss.sourceforge.net/;
+  };
+}