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+# Copyright 2013-2023 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class Metal(CMakePackage):
+    """METAL is a tool for the meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies"""
+
+    homepage = "https://genome.sph.umich.edu/wiki/METAL"
+    url = "https://github.com/statgen/METAL/archive/refs/tags/2020-05-05.tar.gz"
+
+    version(
+        "2020-05-05", sha256="0ffa2419ca2ab43766e7e6e8c97822c8ce1f5b6233fb5f992d1b1be1955fede7"
+    )
+
+    depends_on("cmake@3.1:", type="build")
+    depends_on("zlib-ng")
+
+    @run_after("install")
+    def mv_binary(self):
+        with working_dir(self.build_directory):
+            install_tree("bin", self.prefix.bin)