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+#
+# Biopet is built on top of GATK Queue for building bioinformatic
+# pipelines. It is mainly intended to support LUMC SHARK cluster which is running
+# SGE. But other types of HPC that are supported by GATK Queue (such as PBS)
+# should also be able to execute Biopet tools and pipelines.
+#
+# Copyright 2014 Sequencing Analysis Support Core - Leiden University Medical Center
+#
+# Contact us at: sasc@lumc.nl
+#
+# A dual licensing mode is applied. The source code within this project that are
+# not part of GATK Queue is freely available for non-commercial use under an AGPL
+# license; For commercial users or users who do not want to follow the AGPL
+# license, please contact us to obtain a separate license.
+#
+
+# Set root logger level to DEBUG and its only appender to A1.
+log4j.rootLogger=ERROR, A1
+
+# A1 is set to be a ConsoleAppender.
+log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
+
+# A1 uses PatternLayout.
+log4j.appender.A1.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
+log4j.appender.A1.layout.ConversionPattern=%-5p [%d] [%C{1}] - %m%n
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