[gentoo-commits] proj/sci:master commit in: sci-biology/wgs-assembler/, sci-physics/openmx/, sci-biology/bismark/, ...

[Justin Lecher]

commit:     01a5062038a8bc55319bb81222c9f1bcd369cb20
Author:     Justin Lecher <jlec <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Fri Feb  3 16:27:18 2017 +0000
Commit:     Justin Lecher <jlec <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Sun Feb  5 05:17:59 2017 +0000
URL:        https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/sci.git/commit/?id=01a50620

Shorten all DESCRIPTION to <80 chars

Signed-off-by: Justin Lecher <jlec <AT> gentoo.org>

 sci-biology/beagle/beagle-4.0.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-biology/bismark/bismark-0.13.0.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.2.ebuild                                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.3.ebuild                                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/cdbfasta/cdbfasta-0.1.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-biology/cortex_var/cortex_var-1.0.5.21.ebuild                      | 2 +-
 sci-biology/exomiser-bin/exomiser-bin-7.2.1.ebuild                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.3.ebuild                                | 2 +-
 sci-biology/generecon/generecon-1.2.1-r1.ebuild                        | 2 +-
 sci-biology/genometools/genometools-1.5.7.ebuild                       | 2 +-
 sci-biology/genseed/genseed-1.0.22.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-biology/hydra-sv/hydra-sv-0.5.3.ebuild                             | 2 +-
 sci-biology/kmergenie/kmergenie-1.6971.ebuild                          | 2 +-
 sci-biology/lastz/lastz-1.03.66.ebuild                                 | 2 +-
 sci-biology/manatee-jcvi/manatee-jcvi-2.4.3.ebuild                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/mgblast/mgblast-0.1.ebuild                                 | 2 +-
 sci-biology/mira/mira-4.9.5.ebuild                                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/ngsview/ngsview-0.91.ebuild                                | 2 +-
 sci-biology/perlprimer/perlprimer-1.1.21.ebuild                        | 2 +-
 sci-biology/pileup/pileup-0.6.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-biology/roche454ace2caf/roche454ace2caf-20100812.ebuild            | 2 +-
 sci-biology/samstat/samstat-20130708.ebuild                            | 2 +-
 sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.0-r2.ebuild                            | 2 +-
 sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.1-r1.ebuild                            | 2 +-
 sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.2-r1.ebuild                            | 2 +-
 sci-biology/scaffold_builder/scaffold_builder-20131122-r1.ebuild       | 2 +-
 sci-biology/sclust/sclust-0.1.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-biology/sequin/sequin-20121202.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-biology/sgp2/sgp2-1.1.ebuild                                       | 2 +-
 sci-biology/sickle/sickle-1.33.ebuild                                  | 2 +-
 sci-biology/sickle/sickle-9999.ebuild                                  | 2 +-
 sci-biology/skewer-bin/skewer-bin-0.1.104.ebuild                       | 2 +-
 sci-biology/smalt-bin/smalt-bin-0.7.4.ebuild                           | 2 +-
 sci-biology/stacks/stacks-1.44.ebuild                                  | 2 +-
 sci-biology/subread/subread-1.4.6.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-biology/symap/symap-4.0.ebuild                                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/tgicl/tgicl-2.1.ebuild                                     | 2 +-
 sci-biology/trowel/trowel-0.1.4.1.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-8.3_rc2.ebuild                 | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/chooch/chooch-5.0.2-r1.ebuild                            | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.2.ebuild                           | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.ebuild                             | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/mddnmr/mddnmr-2.4-r1.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/modelfree/modelfree-4.20.ebuild                          | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/mtz2hkl/mtz2hkl-0.3.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/redcat/redcat-3.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/rosetta/rosetta-3.4.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/shiftx2/shiftx2-1.07_p20120106.ebuild                    | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.01.2013.148.15.55-r3.ebuild              | 2 +-
 sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.12.2015.147.15.40.ebuild                 | 2 +-
 sci-geosciences/pydap_handlers_cdms/pydap_handlers_cdms-0.2.0.1.ebuild | 2 +-
 sci-libs/asl/asl-0.1.7.ebuild                                          | 2 +-
 sci-libs/asl/asl-9999.ebuild                                           | 2 +-
 sci-libs/ipp/ipp-8.2.2.187-r1.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-mathematics/apron/apron-0.9.10-r1.ebuild                           | 2 +-
 sci-misc/elmer-gui/elmer-gui-9999.ebuild                               | 2 +-
 sci-misc/mitlm/mitlm-0.4.1.ebuild                                      | 2 +-
 sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.10.4.ebuild                                | 2 +-
 sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.4.2-r1.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.6.4-r1.ebuild                              | 2 +-
 sci-physics/mc-tester/mc-tester-1.25.0.ebuild                          | 2 +-
 sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.6.ebuild                                   | 2 +-
 sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.7.8.ebuild                                 | 2 +-
 63 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sci-biology/beagle/beagle-4.0.ebuild b/sci-biology/beagle/beagle-4.0.ebuild
index 70caec7..c370265 100644
--- a/sci-biology/beagle/beagle-4.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/beagle/beagle-4.0.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit java-pkg-2 java-ant-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Genotype calling/phasing, imputation of ungenotyped markers, identity-by-descent segment detection"
+DESCRIPTION="Genotype calling/phasing, imputation of ungenotyped markers"
 HOMEPAGE="http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.html"
 SRC_URI="http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.r1399.src.zip
 	http://faculty.washington.edu/browning/beagle/beagle.03Mar15.pdf

diff --git a/sci-biology/bismark/bismark-0.13.0.ebuild b/sci-biology/bismark/bismark-0.13.0.ebuild
index 1f6616e..64f06c0 100644
--- a/sci-biology/bismark/bismark-0.13.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/bismark/bismark-0.13.0.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="A tool to map bisulfite converted sequence reads and determine cytosine methylation states"
+DESCRIPTION="Map bisulfite converted sequence reads and determine cytosine methylation states"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/bismark/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/${PN}/${PN}_v${PV}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.2.ebuild b/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.2.ebuild
index 4591d3c..efb3480 100644
--- a/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.2.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.2.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for Illummina and Roche/454 able to also fix insertions and deletions"
+DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for Illummina and Roche/454, inculding insertions and deletions"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/blue"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/public/files/Linux-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz

diff --git a/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.3.ebuild b/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.3.ebuild
index 4591d3c..59561cc 100644
--- a/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/blue/blue-1.1.3.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for Illummina and Roche/454 able to also fix insertions and deletions"
+DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for Illummina and Roche/454, including insertions and deletions"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/blue"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://www.bioinformatics.csiro.au/public/files/Linux-${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz

diff --git a/sci-biology/cdbfasta/cdbfasta-0.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/cdbfasta/cdbfasta-0.1.ebuild
index 06cc243..1dcd7f6 100644
--- a/sci-biology/cdbfasta/cdbfasta-0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/cdbfasta/cdbfasta-0.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="FASTA record indexing/retrievieng utility, a part of TIGR Gene Indices project tools"
+DESCRIPTION="FASTA record indexing/retrievieng utility"
 HOMEPAGE="http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/software"
 SRC_URI="ftp://occams.dfci.harvard.edu/pub/bio/tgi/software/cdbfasta/cdbfasta.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/cortex_var/cortex_var-1.0.5.21.ebuild b/sci-biology/cortex_var/cortex_var-1.0.5.21.ebuild
index 10f36ce..c582526 100644
--- a/sci-biology/cortex_var/cortex_var-1.0.5.21.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/cortex_var/cortex_var-1.0.5.21.ebuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ EAPI=5
 PERL_EXPORT_PHASE_FUNCTIONS=no
 inherit perl-module eutils toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Assemble and compare genotype variants (variant discovery without reference sequence)"
+DESCRIPTION="Genotype variant discovery without reference sequence"
 HOMEPAGE="http://cortexassembler.sourceforge.net/index_cortex_var.html"
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cortexassembler/files/cortex_var/latest/CORTEX_release_v1.0.5.21.tgz
 	http://cortexassembler.sourceforge.net/cortex_var_user_manual.pdf"

diff --git a/sci-biology/exomiser-bin/exomiser-bin-7.2.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/exomiser-bin/exomiser-bin-7.2.1.ebuild
index 1346fd2..fa60ef7 100644
--- a/sci-biology/exomiser-bin/exomiser-bin-7.2.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/exomiser-bin/exomiser-bin-7.2.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Annotate VCF files and prioritize genome/exome mutations (Jannovar, UCSC KnownGenes, hg19)"
+DESCRIPTION="Annotate VCF files and prioritize genome/exome mutations"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/exomiser"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/resources/software/exomiser/downloads/exomiser/exomiser-cli-${PV}-distribution.zip
 	ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/resources/software/exomiser/downloads/exomiser/GenomiserREADME -> ${PN}.README

diff --git a/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.3.ebuild b/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.3.ebuild
index 64b41ab..f558a75 100644
--- a/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/fastqc/fastqc-0.11.3.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit java-pkg-2 eutils java-ant-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Perl-based wrapper around java apps to quality control FASTA/FASTQ sequence files"
+DESCRIPTION="Quality control FASTA/FASTQ sequence files"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.bioinformatics.babraham.ac.uk/projects/fastqc/fastqc_v"${PV}"_source.zip"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/generecon/generecon-1.2.1-r1.ebuild b/sci-biology/generecon/generecon-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
index d3c8acb..81c81ba 100644
--- a/sci-biology/generecon/generecon-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/generecon/generecon-1.2.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit autotools eutils
 
-DESCRIPTION="Disequilibrium gene mapping based on coalescent theory using Bayesian Markov Chain MC methods"
+DESCRIPTION="Disequilibrium gene mapping based on coalescent theory using Bayesian MC methods"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/GeneRecon/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.daimi.au.dk/~mailund/GeneRecon/download/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/genometools/genometools-1.5.7.ebuild b/sci-biology/genometools/genometools-1.5.7.ebuild
index b62bfe1..2a78a5c 100644
--- a/sci-biology/genometools/genometools-1.5.7.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/genometools/genometools-1.5.7.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="A collection of tools for bioinformatics (notably Tallymer, Readjoiner, gff3validator)"
+DESCRIPTION="Tools for bioinformatics (notably Tallymer, Readjoiner, gff3validator)"
 HOMEPAGE="http://genometools.org"
 SRC_URI="http://genometools.org/pub/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/genseed/genseed-1.0.22.ebuild b/sci-biology/genseed/genseed-1.0.22.ebuild
index 92b1812..70919b8 100644
--- a/sci-biology/genseed/genseed-1.0.22.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/genseed/genseed-1.0.22.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Seed-driven progressive assembly program using legacy NCBI blast, CAP3, and optionally cross_match"
+DESCRIPTION="Seed-driven progressive assembly program"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.coccidia.icb.usp.br/genseed/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.coccidia.icb.usp.br/genseed/download/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/hydra-sv/hydra-sv-0.5.3.ebuild b/sci-biology/hydra-sv/hydra-sv-0.5.3.ebuild
index ba64ab2..0130578 100644
--- a/sci-biology/hydra-sv/hydra-sv-0.5.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/hydra-sv/hydra-sv-0.5.3.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Detection of structural variation breakpoints in unique and duplicated genomic regions"
+DESCRIPTION="Detection of structural variation breakpoints"
 HOMEPAGE="http://code.google.com/p/hydra-sv/"
 SRC_URI="http://hydra-sv.googlecode.com/files/Hydra.v${PV}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/kmergenie/kmergenie-1.6971.ebuild b/sci-biology/kmergenie/kmergenie-1.6971.ebuild
index ef96c0a..6762ecd 100644
--- a/sci-biology/kmergenie/kmergenie-1.6971.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/kmergenie/kmergenie-1.6971.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils
 
 PYTHON_COMPAT=( python{2_6,2_7} )
 
-DESCRIPTION="Estimate best k-mer length to be used in novo assemblies (default set during compilation is 121)"
+DESCRIPTION="Estimate best k-mer length to be used in novo assemblies"
 HOMEPAGE="http://kmergenie.bx.psu.edu/"
 SRC_URI="http://kmergenie.bx.psu.edu/"${P}".tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/lastz/lastz-1.03.66.ebuild b/sci-biology/lastz/lastz-1.03.66.ebuild
index a3b2ae1..99d9c22 100644
--- a/sci-biology/lastz/lastz-1.03.66.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/lastz/lastz-1.03.66.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils flag-o-matic toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="A pairwise DNA sequence aligner (also chromosome to chromosome), a BLASTZ replacement"
+DESCRIPTION="A pairwise DNA sequence aligner, a BLASTZ replacement"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.bx.psu.edu/~rsharris/lastz/"
 SRC_URI="http://www.bx.psu.edu/~rsharris/lastz/newer/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/manatee-jcvi/manatee-jcvi-2.4.3.ebuild b/sci-biology/manatee-jcvi/manatee-jcvi-2.4.3.ebuild
index 5701bb8..59c098d 100644
--- a/sci-biology/manatee-jcvi/manatee-jcvi-2.4.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/manatee-jcvi/manatee-jcvi-2.4.3.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="genome annotation tool: view, modify, and store annotation for prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes"
+DESCRIPTION="Genome annotation tool"
 HOMEPAGE="http://manatee.sourceforge.net/jcvi/downloads.shtml"
 SRC_URI="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/manatee/manatee/manatee-2.4.3/manatee-2.4.3.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/mgblast/mgblast-0.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/mgblast/mgblast-0.1.ebuild
index 0a95c2e..0114713 100644
--- a/sci-biology/mgblast/mgblast-0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/mgblast/mgblast-0.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Customized version of megablast from TIGR Gene Indices project used by tgicl and gicl utilities"
+DESCRIPTION="Customized version of megablast from TIGR Gene Indices project"
 HOMEPAGE="http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/software/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://occams.dfci.harvard.edu/pub/bio/tgi/software/tgicl/mgblast.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/mira/mira-4.9.5.ebuild b/sci-biology/mira/mira-4.9.5.ebuild
index c77a962..268d607 100644
--- a/sci-biology/mira/mira-4.9.5.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/mira/mira-4.9.5.ebuild
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ MY_PV="${PV/_}" # convert from mira-4.0_rc2 (Gentoo ebuild filename derived) to
 
 inherit autotools eutils multilib
 
-DESCRIPTION="Whole Genome Shotgun and EST Sequence Assembler for Sanger, 454 and Solexa / Illumina"
+DESCRIPTION="Whole Genome Shotgun and EST Sequence Assembler"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.chevreux.org/projects_mira.html"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/mira-assembler/files/MIRA/development/"${PN}"-"${MY_PV}".tar.bz2

diff --git a/sci-biology/ngsview/ngsview-0.91.ebuild b/sci-biology/ngsview/ngsview-0.91.ebuild
index 8d46197..863bf10 100644
--- a/sci-biology/ngsview/ngsview-0.91.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/ngsview/ngsview-0.91.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit qt4-r2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Display, edit next-gen sequence alignment (BED, BLAST, Eland, mapview processed MAQ, Corona formats)"
+DESCRIPTION="Display, edit NGS alignments"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ngsview"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/projects/${PN}/files/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/perlprimer/perlprimer-1.1.21.ebuild b/sci-biology/perlprimer/perlprimer-1.1.21.ebuild
index e6f00dc..235a0ab 100644
--- a/sci-biology/perlprimer/perlprimer-1.1.21.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/perlprimer/perlprimer-1.1.21.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="GUI application written in Perl to design primers for standard PCR, bisulphite PCR and Real-time PCR"
+DESCRIPTION="Primers design for standard PCR, bisulphite PCR and Real-time PCR"
 HOMEPAGE="http://perlprimer.sourceforge.net/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/pileup/pileup-0.6.ebuild b/sci-biology/pileup/pileup-0.6.ebuild
index 77322f4..260ad8a 100644
--- a/sci-biology/pileup/pileup-0.6.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/pileup/pileup-0.6.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="SSAHA2-based pipeline to align reads into format also understood by samtools, maq"
+DESCRIPTION="SSAHA2-based pipeline to align reads"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/ssaha2/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub4/resources/software/ssaha2/pileup.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/roche454ace2caf/roche454ace2caf-20100812.ebuild b/sci-biology/roche454ace2caf/roche454ace2caf-20100812.ebuild
index 4b6f645..df1a092 100644
--- a/sci-biology/roche454ace2caf/roche454ace2caf-20100812.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/roche454ace2caf/roche454ace2caf-20100812.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=6
 
-DESCRIPTION="Convert from ace to gap4 (of staden v1.x), not needed to convert ace for gap5 of staden v2"
+DESCRIPTION="ace to gap4 converter"
 HOMEPAGE="http://genome.imb-jena.de/software/roche454ace2caf"
 SRC_URI="http://genome.imb-jena.de/software/roche454ace2caf/download/src/roche454ace2gap-2010-12-08.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/samstat/samstat-20130708.ebuild b/sci-biology/samstat/samstat-20130708.ebuild
index 61c4135..bfd17cd 100644
--- a/sci-biology/samstat/samstat-20130708.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/samstat/samstat-20130708.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils
 
-DESCRIPTION="Show statistics of BAM/SAM (error profiles, nucleotide composition, base quals, len. distribution)"
+DESCRIPTION="Statistics of BAM/SAM files"
 HOMEPAGE="http://samstat.sourceforge.net"
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/samstat/files/samstat.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.0-r2.ebuild b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.0-r2.ebuild
index b10e681..4c85410 100644
--- a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.0-r2.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.0-r2.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit eutils multilib python-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map), a format for large nucleotide sequence alignments"
+DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map)"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.htslib.org/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.1-r1.ebuild b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.1-r1.ebuild
index 9941156..5932f8d 100644
--- a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit eutils multilib python-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map), a format for large nucleotide sequence alignments"
+DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map)"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.htslib.org/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.2-r1.ebuild b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.2-r1.ebuild
index dcbd07b..87d702b 100644
--- a/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/samtools/samtools-1.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit eutils multilib python-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map), a format for large nucleotide sequence alignments"
+DESCRIPTION="Utilities for SAM (Sequence Alignment/Map)"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.htslib.org/"
 SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.bz2"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/scaffold_builder/scaffold_builder-20131122-r1.ebuild b/sci-biology/scaffold_builder/scaffold_builder-20131122-r1.ebuild
index 0a7ae54..b57b6a0 100644
--- a/sci-biology/scaffold_builder/scaffold_builder-20131122-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/scaffold_builder/scaffold_builder-20131122-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit python-r1
 
-DESCRIPTION="Combine FASTA contigs from a de novo assembly into scaffolds using a reference genome"
+DESCRIPTION="Combine FASTA contigs from a de novo assembly into scaffolds"
 HOMEPAGE="
 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/scaffold-b
 	http://edwards.sdsu.edu/scaffold_builder"

diff --git a/sci-biology/sclust/sclust-0.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/sclust/sclust-0.1.ebuild
index cb5fe1f..1ee71b6 100644
--- a/sci-biology/sclust/sclust-0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/sclust/sclust-0.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="seeded clustering tool by processing pairwise alignments from TIGR Gene Indices project tools"
+DESCRIPTION="Seeded clustering tool by processing pairwise alignments"
 HOMEPAGE="http://compbio.dfci.harvard.edu/tgi/software/"
 SRC_URI="
 	ftp://occams.dfci.harvard.edu/pub/bio/tgi/software/tgicl/${PN}.tar.gz

diff --git a/sci-biology/sequin/sequin-20121202.ebuild b/sci-biology/sequin/sequin-20121202.ebuild
index f0fc001..da9832e 100644
--- a/sci-biology/sequin/sequin-20121202.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/sequin/sequin-20121202.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils
 
-DESCRIPTION="A tool to facilitate submission of data to the GenBank, EMBL, and DDBJ sequence databases"
+DESCRIPTION="Facilitate submission of data to the GenBank, EMBL, and DDBJ sequence databases"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/"
 SRC_URI="
 	amd64? ( ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/sequin/sequin.linux-x86_64.tar.gz -> ${P}-x86_64.tar.gz )

diff --git a/sci-biology/sgp2/sgp2-1.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/sgp2/sgp2-1.1.ebuild
index 0c8f94f..b8ab027 100644
--- a/sci-biology/sgp2/sgp2-1.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/sgp2/sgp2-1.1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils
 
-DESCRIPTION="Find ORFs by comparing two genomic/EST sequences using tblastx and geneid ab initio predictions"
+DESCRIPTION="Find ORFs by comparing two genomic/EST sequences"
 HOMEPAGE="http://genome.crg.es/software/sgp2/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://genome.crg.es/pub/software/sgp2/sgp2_v1.1.May_8_2012.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-1.33.ebuild b/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-1.33.ebuild
index c790d5b..1d79478 100644
--- a/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-1.33.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-1.33.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils eutils toolchain-funcs
 
 [ "$PV" == "9999" ] && inherit git-r3
 
-DESCRIPTION="Windowed adaptive quality-based trimming tool for FASTQ data from Illumina/Solexa"
+DESCRIPTION="Windowed adaptive quality-based trimming tool for FASTQ data"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/najoshi/sickle"
 if [ "$PV" == "9999" ]; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/najoshi/sickle"

diff --git a/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-9999.ebuild b/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-9999.ebuild
index c790d5b..1d79478 100644
--- a/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/sickle/sickle-9999.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils eutils toolchain-funcs
 
 [ "$PV" == "9999" ] && inherit git-r3
 
-DESCRIPTION="Windowed adaptive quality-based trimming tool for FASTQ data from Illumina/Solexa"
+DESCRIPTION="Windowed adaptive quality-based trimming tool for FASTQ data"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/najoshi/sickle"
 if [ "$PV" == "9999" ]; then
 	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/najoshi/sickle"

diff --git a/sci-biology/skewer-bin/skewer-bin-0.1.104.ebuild b/sci-biology/skewer-bin/skewer-bin-0.1.104.ebuild
index c873326..772cd67 100644
--- a/sci-biology/skewer-bin/skewer-bin-0.1.104.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/skewer-bin/skewer-bin-0.1.104.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Adaptor and MID removal / trimming tool, also for Illumina-oriented paired-end reads"
+DESCRIPTION="Adaptor and MID removal / trimming tool"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/skewer"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://sourceforge.net/projects/skewer/files/Binaries/skewer-0.1.104-linux-x86_64

diff --git a/sci-biology/smalt-bin/smalt-bin-0.7.4.ebuild b/sci-biology/smalt-bin/smalt-bin-0.7.4.ebuild
index 694fc7d..fda5368 100644
--- a/sci-biology/smalt-bin/smalt-bin-0.7.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/smalt-bin/smalt-bin-0.7.4.ebuild
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ EAPI=5
 MY_PN="${PN%-bin}"
 MY_P="${MY_PN}-${PV}"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Pairwise sequence alignment mapping DNA reads onto genomic reference, better over SSAHA2"
+DESCRIPTION="Pairwise sequence alignment mapping DNA reads onto genomic reference"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.sanger.ac.uk/resources/software/smalt/"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub4/resources/software/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/stacks/stacks-1.44.ebuild b/sci-biology/stacks/stacks-1.44.ebuild
index 0b4ca80..4861732 100644
--- a/sci-biology/stacks/stacks-1.44.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/stacks/stacks-1.44.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=yes
 
 inherit flag-o-matic eutils perl-module webapp autotools
 
-DESCRIPTION="Analyze restriction enzyme data, draw gen. maps, population genomics (RAD-seq sequencing)"
+DESCRIPTION="Analyze restriction enzyme data, draw gen. maps, population genomics"
 HOMEPAGE="http://creskolab.uoregon.edu/stacks"
 SRC_URI="http://creskolab.uoregon.edu/stacks/source/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/subread/subread-1.4.6.ebuild b/sci-biology/subread/subread-1.4.6.ebuild
index 3f42edf..ac164fd 100644
--- a/sci-biology/subread/subread-1.4.6.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/subread/subread-1.4.6.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 [ "$PV" == "9999" ] && inherit subversion
 
-DESCRIPTION="NGS suite for read mapping, analysis of mapped reads, summary of exon/intron/gene counts"
+DESCRIPTION="NGS suite for analysis of mapped reads, summary of exon/intron/gene counts"
 HOMEPAGE="http://bioinf.wehi.edu.au/featureCounts/"
 if [ "$PV" == "9999" ]; then
 	ESVN_REPO_URI="https://subread.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/subread/trunk"

diff --git a/sci-biology/symap/symap-4.0.ebuild b/sci-biology/symap/symap-4.0.ebuild
index 42ce623..9fe8c96 100644
--- a/sci-biology/symap/symap-4.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/symap/symap-4.0.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program between chromosomes, contigs and physical maps"
+DESCRIPTION="Synteny Mapping and Analysis Program"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.agcol.arizona.edu/software/symap/"
 SRC_URI="symap_40.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/tgicl/tgicl-2.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/tgicl/tgicl-2.1.ebuild
index ae10de3..190b419 100644
--- a/sci-biology/tgicl/tgicl-2.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/tgicl/tgicl-2.1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit perl-module
 
-DESCRIPTION="TIGR perl scripts for clustering large EST/mRNAs datasets and aceconv, mgblast and pvmsx binaries"
+DESCRIPTION="TIGR perl scripts for clustering"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tgicl"
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tgicl/files/tgicl%20v2.1/TGICL-2.1.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/trowel/trowel-0.1.4.1.ebuild b/sci-biology/trowel/trowel-0.1.4.1.ebuild
index ae4282f..bfdd7b0 100644
--- a/sci-biology/trowel/trowel-0.1.4.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/trowel/trowel-0.1.4.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for genomic Illumina FASTQ reads using QUALs and not coverage info"
+DESCRIPTION="Error corrector for genomic Illumina FASTQ reads"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/trowel-ec"
 SRC_URI="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/trowel-ec/src/trowel.0.1.4.1.src.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-8.3_rc2.ebuild b/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-8.3_rc2.ebuild
index 35f7f58..a1aaaca 100644
--- a/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-8.3_rc2.ebuild
+++ b/sci-biology/wgs-assembler/wgs-assembler-8.3_rc2.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit eutils python-single-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
 MY_PV="${PV/_}" # convert from _rc2 to rc2
 
-DESCRIPTION="De novo whole-genome shotgun DNA sequence OLC assembler (Celera Assembler, CABOG)"
+DESCRIPTION="De novo whole-genome shotgun DNA sequence OLC assembler"
 HOMEPAGE="http://sourceforge.net/projects/wgs-assembler/"
 SRC_URI="http://sourceforge.net/projects/${PN}/files/${PN}/wgs-8.3/wgs-${MY_PV}.tar.bz2"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/chooch/chooch-5.0.2-r1.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/chooch/chooch-5.0.2-r1.ebuild
index 7341392..87f91cf 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/chooch/chooch-5.0.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/chooch/chooch-5.0.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ AUTOTOOLS_AUTORECONF=true
 
 inherit autotools-utils multilib toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="a program that will automatically determine values of the anomalous scattering factors"
+DESCRIPTION="Automatically determine values of the anomalous scattering factors"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gwyndafevans.co.uk/id2.html"
 SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.ccp4.ac.uk/${PN}/${PV}/packed/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.2.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.2.ebuild
index e6308ea..e1e2bd9 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.2.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.2.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Method to generate protein conformations around a known structure based on geometric restrictions"
+DESCRIPTION="Protein conformations around a known structure based on geometric restrictions"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/concoord/concoord.html"
 SRC_URI="
 	amd64? ( http://www3.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/${PN}/${PN}_${PV}_linux64.tgz )

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.ebuild
index 8ec96b9..6f5ec47 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/concoord/concoord-2.1.ebuild
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 EAPI=5
 
-DESCRIPTION="Method to generate protein conformations around a known structure based on geometric restrictions"
+DESCRIPTION="Protein conformations around a known structure based on geometric restrictions"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/concoord/concoord.html"
 SRC_URI="
 	amd64? ( http://www.mpibpc.mpg.de/groups/de_groot/concoord/concoord2.1_linux_x86_64.tgz )

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/mddnmr/mddnmr-2.4-r1.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/mddnmr/mddnmr-2.4-r1.ebuild
index 8123048..4909fbe 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/mddnmr/mddnmr-2.4-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/mddnmr/mddnmr-2.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ inherit python-single-r1
 
 MY_P="${PN}${PV}"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Program for processing of non-uniformly sampled (NUS) multidimensional NMR spectra"
+DESCRIPTION="Program for processing of NUS multidimensional NMR spectra"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.nmr.gu.se/~mdd/"
 SRC_URI="http://pc8.nmr.gu.se/~mdd/Downloads/${MY_P}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/modelfree/modelfree-4.20.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/modelfree/modelfree-4.20.ebuild
index a40d489..66f5721 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/modelfree/modelfree-4.20.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/modelfree/modelfree-4.20.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit fortran-2 multilib
 
-DESCRIPTION="A program for optimizing Lipari-Szabo model free parameters to heteronuclear relaxation data"
+DESCRIPTION="Optimizing Lipari-Szabo model free parameters to heteronuclear relaxation data"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.palmer.hs.columbia.edu/software/modelfree.html"
 SRC_URI="http://www.palmer.hs.columbia.edu/software/modelfree4_linux.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/mtz2hkl/mtz2hkl-0.3.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/mtz2hkl/mtz2hkl-0.3.ebuild
index 08696a4..bc7cf14 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/mtz2hkl/mtz2hkl-0.3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/mtz2hkl/mtz2hkl-0.3.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Intended to facilitate the transition from refmac5 refinement to shelxh or shelxl refinement"
+DESCRIPTION="Facilitate the transition from refmac5 refinement to shelxh or shelxl refinement"
 HOMEPAGE="http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~tg/research/programs/conv/mtz2x/mtz2hkl/"
 SRC_URI="http://shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de/~tg/research/programs/conv/mtz2x/${PN}/downloads/${PV}/${PN}_v${PV}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/redcat/redcat-3.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/redcat/redcat-3.ebuild
index bf8d739..3105334 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/redcat/redcat-3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/redcat/redcat-3.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit cmake-utils java-pkg-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Analysis of residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) for structure validation and elucidation"
+DESCRIPTION="Analysis of RDCs for structure validation and elucidation"
 HOMEPAGE="http://ifestos.cse.sc.edu/software.php"
 SRC_URI="http://ifestos.cse.sc.edu/downloads.php?get=Redcat.${PV}.tar.gz -> Redcat.${PV}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/rosetta/rosetta-3.4.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/rosetta/rosetta-3.4.ebuild
index 139641e..241cdba 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/rosetta/rosetta-3.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/rosetta/rosetta-3.4.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib prefix scons-utils toolchain-funcs versionator
 #MY_P="${PN}$(get_major_version)_source"
 MY_P="${PN}${PV}_source"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Prediction and design of protein structures, folding mechanisms, and protein-protein interactions"
+DESCRIPTION="Prediction of protein structures and protein-protein interactions"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.rosettacommons.org/"
 SRC_URI="${MY_P}.tgz patch_rosetta3.4_to_CSROSETTA3_ver1.3.txt"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/shiftx2/shiftx2-1.07_p20120106.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/shiftx2/shiftx2-1.07_p20120106.ebuild
index b56d269..18e43cb 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/shiftx2/shiftx2-1.07_p20120106.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/shiftx2/shiftx2-1.07_p20120106.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ MY_PV="$(delete_all_version_separators $(get_version_component_range 1-2))"
 MY_PATCH="20120106"
 MY_P="${PN}-v${MY_PV}-linux"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Predicts both the backbone and side chain 1H, 13C and 15N chemical shifts for proteins"
+DESCRIPTION="Predicts of backbone and side chain 1H, 13C and 15N CS for proteins"
 HOMEPAGE="http://shiftx2.wishartlab.com/"
 SRC_URI="http://shiftx2.wishartlab.com/download/${MY_P}-${MY_PATCH}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.01.2013.148.15.55-r3.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.01.2013.148.15.55-r3.ebuild
index f28e0fb..081c944 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.01.2013.148.15.55-r3.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.01.2013.148.15.55-r3.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit java-pkg-opt-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Prediction of Protein Backbone and Sidechain Torsion Angles from NMR Chemical Shifts"
+DESCRIPTION="Prediction of Protein bb and sc Torsion Angles from NMR Chemical Shifts"
 HOMEPAGE="http://spin.niddk.nih.gov/bax/software/TALOS-N/"
 SRC_URI="http://spin.niddk.nih.gov/bax/software/TALOS-N/talosn.tZ -> ${P}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.12.2015.147.15.40.ebuild b/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.12.2015.147.15.40.ebuild
index f28e0fb..081c944 100644
--- a/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.12.2015.147.15.40.ebuild
+++ b/sci-chemistry/talosn/talosn-4.12.2015.147.15.40.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit java-pkg-opt-2
 
-DESCRIPTION="Prediction of Protein Backbone and Sidechain Torsion Angles from NMR Chemical Shifts"
+DESCRIPTION="Prediction of Protein bb and sc Torsion Angles from NMR Chemical Shifts"
 HOMEPAGE="http://spin.niddk.nih.gov/bax/software/TALOS-N/"
 SRC_URI="http://spin.niddk.nih.gov/bax/software/TALOS-N/talosn.tZ -> ${P}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-geosciences/pydap_handlers_cdms/pydap_handlers_cdms-0.2.0.1.ebuild b/sci-geosciences/pydap_handlers_cdms/pydap_handlers_cdms-0.2.0.1.ebuild
index c0cc917..94fabb2 100644
--- a/sci-geosciences/pydap_handlers_cdms/pydap_handlers_cdms-0.2.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-geosciences/pydap_handlers_cdms/pydap_handlers_cdms-0.2.0.1.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ inherit distutils-r1
 MY_PN=${PN//_/.}
 MY_P=${P//_/.}
 
-DESCRIPTION="CDMS handler for Pydap server that supports netCDF, HDF, GrADS/GRIB, or PCMDI DRS"
+DESCRIPTION="CDMS handler for Pydap server"
 HOMEPAGE="http://pydap.org/handlers.html#cdms"
 SRC_URI="mirror://pypi/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-libs/asl/asl-0.1.7.ebuild b/sci-libs/asl/asl-0.1.7.ebuild
index cdec05f..f698a05 100644
--- a/sci-libs/asl/asl-0.1.7.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/asl/asl-0.1.7.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:-ninja}"
 
 inherit cmake-utils
 
-DESCRIPTION="Advanced Simulation Library - hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform"
+DESCRIPTION="Hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform"
 HOMEPAGE="http://asl.org.il/"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/AvtechScientific/${MY_PN}/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-libs/asl/asl-9999.ebuild b/sci-libs/asl/asl-9999.ebuild
index 81ecd1d..3f4b64e 100644
--- a/sci-libs/asl/asl-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/asl/asl-9999.ebuild
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR="${CMAKE_MAKEFILE_GENERATOR:-ninja}"
 
 inherit cmake-utils git-r3
 
-DESCRIPTION="Advanced Simulation Library - hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform"
+DESCRIPTION="Hardware accelerated multiphysics simulation platform"
 HOMEPAGE="http://asl.org.il/"
 SRC_URI=""
 EGIT_REPO_URI="git://github.com/AvtechScientific/${MY_PN}.git"

diff --git a/sci-libs/ipp/ipp-8.2.2.187-r1.ebuild b/sci-libs/ipp/ipp-8.2.2.187-r1.ebuild
index 076a4a9..f44e0f4 100644
--- a/sci-libs/ipp/ipp-8.2.2.187-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-libs/ipp/ipp-8.2.2.187-r1.ebuild
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ INTEL_SINGLE_ARCH=false
 
 inherit intel-sdp
 
-DESCRIPTION="Intel Integrated Performance Primitive library for multimedia and data processing"
+DESCRIPTION="Intel Integrated Performance Primitive library"
 HOMEPAGE="http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-ipp/"
 
 IUSE=""

diff --git a/sci-mathematics/apron/apron-0.9.10-r1.ebuild b/sci-mathematics/apron/apron-0.9.10-r1.ebuild
index 622c06b..21d7f01 100644
--- a/sci-mathematics/apron/apron-0.9.10-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-mathematics/apron/apron-0.9.10-r1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI="5"
 
 inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Static analysis of the numerical variables of a program by Abstract Interpretation"
+DESCRIPTION="Static analysis of the numerical variables by Abstract Interpretation"
 HOMEPAGE="http://apron.cri.ensmp.fr/library/"
 SRC_URI="http://apron.cri.ensmp.fr/library/${P}.tgz"
 

diff --git a/sci-misc/elmer-gui/elmer-gui-9999.ebuild b/sci-misc/elmer-gui/elmer-gui-9999.ebuild
index b33a150..6db93d0 100644
--- a/sci-misc/elmer-gui/elmer-gui-9999.ebuild
+++ b/sci-misc/elmer-gui/elmer-gui-9999.ebuild
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ inherit autotools eutils qt4-r2 subversion python-single-r1 versionator
 ELMER_ROOT="elmerfem"
 MY_PN=ElmerGUI
 
-DESCRIPTION="a collection of finite element programs, libraries, and visualization tools, New Elmer pre-processor"
+DESCRIPTION="Finite element programs, libraries, visualization tools"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.csc.fi/english/pages/elmer"
 SRC_URI=""
 ESVN_REPO_URI="https://elmerfem.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/elmerfem/trunk/${MY_PN}"

diff --git a/sci-misc/mitlm/mitlm-0.4.1.ebuild b/sci-misc/mitlm/mitlm-0.4.1.ebuild
index a1d3e74..c343d16 100644
--- a/sci-misc/mitlm/mitlm-0.4.1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-misc/mitlm/mitlm-0.4.1.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI="5"
 
 inherit autotools
 
-DESCRIPTION="A set of tools designed for the efficient estimation of statistical n-gram language models"
+DESCRIPTION="Tools designed for efficient estimation of statistical n-gram language models"
 HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/mitlm/mitlm"
 SRC_URI="https://github.com/${PN}/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${PN}_${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.10.4.ebuild b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.10.4.ebuild
index ed16815..48c31f3 100644
--- a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.10.4.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.10.4.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit autotools-utils eutils flag-o-matic fortran-2 multilib python-single-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Find total energy, charge density and electronic structure using density functional theory"
+DESCRIPTION="Total energy, charge density and electronic structure using DFT"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.abinit.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://ftp.abinit.org/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.4.2-r1.ebuild b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.4.2-r1.ebuild
index 51f7ee7..45b7caa 100644
--- a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.4.2-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.4.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit autotools-utils eutils flag-o-matic fortran-2 multilib python-single-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Find total energy, charge density and electronic structure using density functional theory"
+DESCRIPTION="Total energy, charge density and electronic structure using DFT"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.abinit.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://ftp.abinit.org/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.6.4-r1.ebuild b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.6.4-r1.ebuild
index 61ba323..6dd7323 100644
--- a/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.6.4-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/abinit/abinit-7.6.4-r1.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
 
 inherit autotools-utils eutils flag-o-matic fortran-2 multilib python-single-r1 toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Find total energy, charge density and electronic structure using density functional theory"
+DESCRIPTION="Total energy, charge density and electronic structure using DFT"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.abinit.org/"
 SRC_URI="http://ftp.abinit.org/${P}.tar.gz"
 

diff --git a/sci-physics/mc-tester/mc-tester-1.25.0.ebuild b/sci-physics/mc-tester/mc-tester-1.25.0.ebuild
index 78eff0e..84b7cd9 100644
--- a/sci-physics/mc-tester/mc-tester-1.25.0.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/mc-tester/mc-tester-1.25.0.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils
 
 MYPN=MC-TESTER
 
-DESCRIPTION="A universal tool for comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions in High Energy Physics"
+DESCRIPTION="Comparisons of Monte Carlo predictions in High Energy Physics"
 HOMEPAGE="http://mc-tester.web.cern.ch/MC-TESTER/"
 SRC_URI="http://mc-tester.web.cern.ch/MC-TESTER/${MYPN}-${PV}.tar.gz"
 LICENSE="CPC GPL-2+"

diff --git a/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.6.ebuild b/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.6.ebuild
index 978d5f3..02176eb 100644
--- a/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.6.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.6.ebuild
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ EAPI=5
 
 inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs
 
-DESCRIPTION="Material eXplorer using DFT, NC pseudopotentials, and pseudo-atomic localized basis functions"
+DESCRIPTION="Material eXplorer"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.openmx-square.org/"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://www.openmx-square.org/${PN}${PV}.tar.gz

diff --git a/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.7.8.ebuild b/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.7.8.ebuild
index 3468aa1..a227c0b 100644
--- a/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.7.8.ebuild
+++ b/sci-physics/openmx/openmx-3.7.8.ebuild
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs fortran-2
 
 PATCHDATE="14Feb17"
 
-DESCRIPTION="Material eXplorer using DFT, NC pseudopotentials, and pseudo-atomic localized basis functions"
+DESCRIPTION="Material eXplorer"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.openmx-square.org/"
 SRC_URI="
 	http://www.openmx-square.org/${PN}${PV%.[0-9]}.tar.gz