This package was originally debianized by Stephane Bortzmeyer on Tue, 22 Sep 1998 17:23:12 +0200. Subsequent maintainers have been Dr. Guenter Bechly and Aaron M. Ucko , who conveniently happens to work at NCBI. ;-) It was downloaded from ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/ The reference Web server is http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/ The upstream authors are several: see the README. The contact address is toolbox@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Copyright: The NCBI toolkit has been put into the public domain, completely unfettered: PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE National Center for Biotechnology Information This software/database is a "United States Government Work" under the terms of the United States Copyright Act. It was written as part of the author's official duties as a United States Government employee and thus cannot be copyrighted. This software/database is freely available to the public for use. The National Library of Medicine and the U.S. Government have not placed any restriction on its use or reproduction. Although all reasonable efforts have been taken to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the software and data, the NLM and the U.S. Government do not and cannot warrant the performance or results that may be obtained by using this software or data. The NLM and the U.S. Government disclaim all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of performance, merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose. Please cite the author in any work or product based on this material.