CONTENTS

  Public Domain Notice
  Exceptions (for bundled 3rd-party code)
  Copyright F.A.Q.



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                          PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE
             National Center for Biotechnology Information

This software was created as part of the author(s) official duties as a United 
States Government employee(s), is a "United States Government Work" and is not 
subject to copyright in the United States (17 USC 105). The National Library of 
Medicine (NLM) and the U.S. Government have not placed any restriction on its
use or reproduction.

The NLM disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of 
performance, merchantability, or fitness for any particular purpose.

Please cite NLM in any work or product based on this material.

EGAPx makes use of various third-party tools which carry their own licenses. 

The list of third-party tools and their licenses are provided here:
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EXCEPTIONS (in all cases excluding NCBI-written makefiles):


Location: img/gp/third-party/STAR
Authors:  Alexander Dobin
License:  MIT License
          [https://github.com/alexdobin/STAR/blob/master/LICENSE]

Location: img/gp/third-party/samtools
Authors:  Genome Research Ltd.
License:  The MIT/Expat License
          [https://github.com/samtools/samtools/blob/develop/LICENSE]

Location: img/gp/third-party/miniprot
Authors:  Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
License:  MIT License
          [https://github.com/lh3/miniprot/blob/master/LICENSE.txt]

Location: img/gp/third-party/diamond
Authors:  Benjamin Buchfink
License:  GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
          [https://github.com/bbuchfink/diamond/blob/master/LICENSE]

Location: img/gp/third-party/seqkit
Authors:  Wei Shen
License:  MIT License
          [https://github.com/shenwei356/seqkit/blob/master/LICENSE]

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Copyright F.A.Q.


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Q. Our product makes use of the NCBI source code, and we did changes
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