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+{% set version = "1.0.0" %}
+
+package:
+  name: lodei
+  version: {{version}}
+
+source:
+  url: https://github.com/rna-editing1/lodei/archive/refs/tags/v{{version}}.tar.gz
+  sha256: e71d7bbd28a8227c8e5757c79f4c94f1bf9e1db278782cb82e5bcc2147721dfe
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  number: 0
+  script: python -m pip install . --no-deps --no-build-isolation -vvv
+  run_exports:
+    - {{ pin_subpackage('lodei', max_pin="x") }}
+
+requirements:
+  host:
+    - python
+    - pip
+  run:
+    - pysamstats 
+    - pandas
+    - matplotlib-base
+
+test:
+  commands:
+    - lodei --help
+
+about:
+  home: https://github.com/rna-editing1/lodei
+  license: GPL-3.0-or-later
+  license_file: LICENSE
+  doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53298-y
+  summary: Analyze differentially edited A-to-I regions in two sets of RNA-seq samples.
+  details: |
+    LoDEI - the local differential editing index - offers a collection of programs 
+    to detect and analyze differentially edited A-to-I regions in two sets of RNA-seq samples.