Perl module: CaCORE

========= DEPENDENCIES =========================================================

You need the following modules (all available at CPAN):

========= INSTALLATION =========================================================

To configure this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file and type the following.

perl Makefile.PL

Alternatively, if you plan to install CaCORE somewhere other than your system's perl library directory. You can type something like this:

perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl INSTALLDIRS=perl

Then to build you run make.

make

You can then test the module by typing:

make test

If you have write access to the perl library directories, you may then install by typing:

make install

============= CaCORE =========================================================

This is a Perl application programming interface to caCORE hosted vocabulary, metadata, and biomedical data.

============= Author =========================================================

Shan Jiang <jiangs@mail.nih.gov>

============= COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ============================================

The CaCORE Software License, Version 1.0

Copyright 2001-2006 SAIC. This software was developed in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute, and so to the extent government employees are co-authors, any rights in such works shall be subject to Title 17 of the United States Code, section 105. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaimer of Article 5, below. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the disclaimer of Article 5 in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
  2. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by SAIC and the National Cancer Institute." If no such end-user documentation is to be included, this acknowledgment shall appear in the software itself, wherever such third-party acknowledgments normally appear.
  3. The names "The National Cancer Institute", "NCI" and "SAIC" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software. This license does not authorize the licensee to use any trademarks owned by either NCI or SAIC.
  4. This license does not authorize or prohibit the incorporation of this software into any third party proprietary programs. Licensee is expressly made responsible for obtaining any permission required to incorporate this software into third party proprietary programs and for informing licensee's end-users of their obligation to secure any required permissions before incorporating this software into third party proprietary software programs.
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