README

This is the ChemCell (10 Sept 2008) software package.

Copyright (2004) Sandia Corporation.  Under the terms of Contract
DE-AC04-94AL85000 with Sandia Corporation, the U.S. Government retains
certain rights in this software.  This software is distributed under
the GNU General Public License.

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ChemCell is a particle-based reaction/diffusion simulator designed for
modeling protein networks in biological cells with spatial
information.  Spatial simulations can be run efficiently on parallel
computers.  Non-spatial simulations can also be run using an ODE
solver or the Gillespie Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (SSA).

ChemCell was developed at Sandia National Laboratories, a US
Department of Energy facility, with funding from the DOE.  It is an
open-source code, distributed freely under the terms of the GNU Public
License (GPL).

The authors of the code are Steve Plimpton and Alex Slepoy, who can be
emailed at sjplimp@sandia.gov and alexander.slepoy@nnsa.doe.gov.  The
ChemCell WWW Site at www.cs.sandia.gov/~sjplimp/chemcell.html has more
information about the code and its uses.

The ChemCell (10 Sept 2008) distribution includes the following files
and directories:

README			   this file
LICENSE			   the GNU General Public License (GPL)
doc			   documentation
examples		   test problems
src			   source files

Point your browser at any of these files to get started:

doc/Manual.html	           the ChemCell manual
doc/Section_intro.html	   hi-level introduction to ChemCell
doc/Section_start.html	   how to build and use ChemCell