Easel - a library of C functions for biological sequence analysis
Copyright (C) 1990-2023 Sean R. Eddy
Copyright (C) 2015-2023 President and Fellows of Harvard College
Copyright (C) 2000-2023 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Copyright (C) 1995-2006 Washington University School of Medicine
Copyright (C) 1992-1995 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
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Easel's code includes contributions from members of the Eddy/Rivas
laboratory at Harvard University, the HMMER and Infernal development
teams, and other colleagues, including:

   Tyler Camp        
   Nick Carter       
   Michael Farrar    
   Graeme Mitchison  
   Eric Nawrocki     
   Sam Petti
   Elena Rivas       
   Travis Wheeler    

Easel also includes code we have incorporated from other sources and
authors -- including public domain code, and licensed copyrighted
code. Sources and licenses are noted in the appropriate places in
individual files. Copyright holders and contributors include:

   Barry W. Brown, James Lovato        esl_random:esl_rnd_Gaussian()   
   Bob Jenkins                         esl_random::esl_rnd_mix3()
   Steven G. Johnson, and others       autoconf macros in m4/
   Martin Larralde                     ARM Neon support
   Kevin Lawler                        esl_rand64::esl_rand64_Deal()
   Stephen Moshier                     SIMD vectorized logf,expf
   Takuji Nishimura, Makoto Matsumoto  esl_random, esl_rand64
   Julien Pommier                      SIMD vectorized logf,expf
   David Robert Nadeau                 esl_stopwatch
   Henry Spencer                       esl_regexp
   David Wheeler                       easel::esl_tmpfile()
   Free Software Foundation, Inc.      configure	
   FreeBSD 		               easel::esl_strsep()
   Sun Microsystems, Inc.              esl_stats::esl_erfc()

Easel development is supported in part by the National Human Genome
Research Institute of the US National Institutes of Health under grant
number R01HG009116. The content is solely the responsibility of the
authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the
National Institutes of Health.

The Easel library is open source software. It is freely distributed
under the terms of the BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) open
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