Disclaimer and Copyright

The programs and source code of RNAforester 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.

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

The include files "fold_vars.h" and "part_func.h" "utils.h" are slightly modified to be compatible
with the g++ compiler and distributed with this package. Note that these files have their own
copyrights attached.

The code for computing a maximum wheigted matching was written by Ed Rothberg
and implements H. Gabow's N-cubed weighted matching algorithm, 
as described in his Ph.D. thesis
"Implementation of Algorithms for Maximum Matching on Nonbipartite Graphs" 
Stanford University, 1973.  
(refer to http://elib.zib.de/pub/Packages/mathprog/matching/weighted/)

The prediction of structures utilizes functions from the Vienna 
RNA library, originally described in:
Fast Folding and Comparison of RNA Secondary Structures,
Ivo L. Hofacker, Walter Fontana, Peter F. Stadler, L. Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Manfred Tacker, and Peter Schuster
Appeared in: Monatsh.Chem. 125: 167-188 (1994).