This is Version 1.4 of the RNAforester package.
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See the NEWS and Changelog files for changes between versions.
Please read the copyright notice in the file COPYING!

The RNAforester package is a tool for aligning RNA secondary structures
and it's user interface integrates to those of the tools of the
Vienna RNA package (http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/~ivo/RNA/).

RNAforester supports the following functionality:
- calculate a global alignment of RNA secondary structures
- calculate a local alignments (local similarity) of RNA secondary structures
- calculate multiple alignments of RNA secondary structures
- visualize RNA secondary structure alignments as 2d plots

The package should be easily portable. It is known to compile without
modifications at least under SunOS 8.x, and linux.
Other UN*X flavours should present no problems.
You need a compiler that understands standard C++.
See the INSTALL file for details.

For more details about RNAforester information see the man page.

If you're a commercial user and find these programs useful, please consider
supporting further developments with a donation.

The most recent source code and documentation should always be available on
the web at http://bibiserv.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/rnaforester

I appreciate any feedback! Send your comments, suggestions, and questions to
mhoechsm@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Matthias Hoechsmann, June 2004