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+{ stdenv, fetchurl, zlib, ncurses }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "samtools-${version}";
+  version = "1.3";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "https://github.com/samtools/samtools/releases/download/${version}/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "03mnf0mhbfwhqlqfslrhfnw68s3g0fs1as354i9a584mqw1l1smy";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ zlib ncurses ];
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Tools (written in C using htslib) for manipulating next-generation sequencing data";
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    homepage = http://www.htslib.org/;
+  };
+}