LIGPLOT - Automated representation of protein-ligand interactions
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			CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
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In regard to the LIGPLOT , specified in the Appendix herewith 
(the Software) supplied to us, the copyright and other
intellectual property rights to which belong to the authors, we


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undertake to the authors that we shall be bound by the following terms 
and conditions:-

1. We will receive the Software and any related documentation in 
confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of the
department's own research. The Software will be used only by such of 
our officers or employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated 
to enable us to undertake our research and who agree to be bound by 
the same confidence.  The department shall procure and enforce such
agreement from its staff for the benefit of the authors.

2. The publication of research using the Software must reference
"Wallace A C, Laskowski R A, Thornton J M (1995). LIGPLOT: A program
to generate schematic diagrams of protein-ligand interactions. Protein 
Engineering, 8, 127-134."

3. Research shall take place solely at the department's premises at


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4. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place
 to prevent unauthorised access.

5. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package
associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking 
maintained) with the following copyright notice: " Copyright 1994
A C Wallace, R A Laskowski, & J M Thornton All Rights Reserved".

6. The Software may be modified but any changes made shall be made
available to the authors.

7. The Software shall be used exclusively for academic teaching and
research. The Software will not be used for any commercial research or
research associated with an industrial company.

8. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply:

   (i)  to information and data known to the department at the time of
	receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records);

  (ii)	to information and data which was at the time of receipt in the 
	public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of
	the department;

 (iii)	to information and data which the department receives from a third
	party not in breach of any obligation of confidentiality owed to
	the authors.

Please sign this Undertaking and return a copy of it to indicate that you 
have read, understood and accepted the above terms.



		      For and on behalf of _____________________________

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e-mail address ___________________________



Please complete the above form, sign it, and then send it, or fax it, to:-


Roman Laskowski
European Bioinformatics Institute,
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,
Hinxton,
Cambridge, CB10 1SD,
United Kingdom
 
Fax:- +44 (0)1223 494 468
 
roman@ebi.ac.uk


If you have any problems either installing the software or running it,
please e-mail your problems to:-

     roman@ebi.ac.uk


APPENDIX - Files supplied as part of the LIGPLOT program
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Source program files:-
1. ligplot.c
2. ligplot.h
3. hbadd.c
4. hbadd.h
5. dimer.c
6. dimer.h

Script files:-
1. ligplot.scr
2. ligonly.scr
3. dimplot.scr
4. dimonly.scr

Parameter file:-
1. ligplot.prm

Installation instructions:-
1. install.doc

Documentation:-
1. manual.tar.Z
2. README

Confidentiality Agreement:-
1. confid.txt



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