A Library for predicting and comparing RNA secondary structures

The core of the ViennaRNA Package ([14], [11]) is formed by a collection of routines for the prediction and comparison of RNA secondary structures. These routines can be accessed through stand-alone programs, such as RNAfold, RNAdistance etc., which should be sufficient for most users. For those who wish to develop their own programs we provide a library which can be linked to your own code.

This document describes the library and will be primarily useful to programmers. However, it also contains details about the implementation that may be of interest to advanced users. The stand-alone programs are described in separate man pages. The latest version of the package including source code and html versions of the documentation can be found at

http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/RNA

Date: 1994-2019

Authors: Ivo Hofacker, Peter Stadler, Ronny Lorenz, and so many more

License

			 Disclaimer and Copyright

The programs, library and source code of the Vienna RNA Package are free
software. They are distributed in the hope that they will be useful
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

Permission is granted for research, educational, and commercial use
and modification so long as 1) the package and any derived works are not
redistributed for any fee, other than media costs, 2) proper credit is
given to the authors and the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry of the 
University of Vienna.

If you want to include this software in a commercial product, please contact 
the authors.

Contributors

THANKS

If you want to get involved in the development of the ViennaRNA Package yourself, please read the Contributing page.

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