B.8. mpiBlast

BLAST - open source parallel BLAST

Source code and other files distributed with mpiBLAST are 
copyright (c) 2002-2005 by Aaron Darling of Los Alamos National 
Laboratory for the Regents of the University of California.
Numerous authors have contributed to mpiBLAST and are listed in
the included AUTHORS file.

License:

Copyright 2002-2005. The Regents of the University of California.

This material was produced under U.S. Government contract
W-7405-ENG-36 for Los Alamos National Laboratory, which is operated
by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Additionally, this program is free software; you can distribute it
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You may contact the primary author (Aaron E. Darling) via email
at darling@cs.wisc.edu, or via postal mail at 425 Henry Mall, 
Madison WI, 53706.


See the file 'COPYING' for the details of the GNU General Public License

Some portions of mpiBLAST are derivitive works of the NCBI Toolbox.
In particular, src/blast_hooks.c and src/mpiblast_formatdb.c are derivitive 
of blastall.c and formatdb.c from the NCBI Toolbox.  As such, they remain 
under the NCBI public domain license given at the beginning of those files.