LICENSE

PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE AGREEMENT. BY USING THE PROGRAM YOU ARE
ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THIS
AGREEMENT. USERS WISHING TO USE THE SOFTWARE FOR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES
SHOULD SEND E-MAIL TO: enquiries@ebisu.co.uk


   DISOPRED3 - PROTEIN INTRINSIC DISORDER PREDICTION PROGRAM BY 
                      D.T. JONES, D. COZZETTO & J.J. WARD
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                         GENERAL LICENSE &
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		     CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT
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In regard to the protein structure prediction program (DISOPRED3)
herewith (the Software) the copyright and other intellectual property
rights to which belong to the Author(s) (the Copyright holder).

Any user (the User) of the program undertakes to the Copyright holder that 
heor she shall be bound by the following terms and conditions:

1. The User will receive the Software and any related documentation in
confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of their own 
research. The Software will be used only by such of the User's officers or
employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable them to
undertake their research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence.
The User shall procure and enforce such agreement from his or her staff for
the benefit of the Copyright holder.

2. The publication of research using the Software must include an
appropriate citation to the method:

Jones, D.T. and Cozzetto, D. (2014) DISOPRED3: Precise disordered region
predictions with annotated protein binding acrivity, Bioinformatics.
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu744
 
3. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to
prevent unauthorised access.

4. 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 2014 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Ward. All Rights Reserved.".

5. The Software may be modified, but any changes made shall be communicated
to the Author(s) and made freely available.

6. The Software may not be used for commercial activities, sold as a standalone package,
or incorporated into a commercial software package without the written permission of the 
Copyright holder. The Software may be used freely for academic research and teaching
purposes.

7. Users may not incorporate the output of the software into any data banks or
databases which are subject to the payment of access or license fees without the written
permission of the Copyright holder.

8. The Software may be made available to other academic users over a local network or
wide area network (including the Internet). Incorporation of the Software into any kind of
commercial Web site or other fee paying service is forbidden without the written
permission of the Copyright holder. If DISOPRED results are returned to the user via
such a network service, then a suitable acknowledgement of the DISOPRED method must be
returned somewhere in the output text.

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

   (i)  to information and data known to the User at the time of
	receipt here under (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 User;

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

10. The User understands that the Software is supplied "as is". No warranty
   as to its fitness or suitability for any purpose whatsoever is made or
   implied. In no event shall the Author(s) or Copyright holder be held
   responsible for any direct or indirect damages arising through the use
   of the Software.