o About this software...
  Geodesic is a Java based graphical client for the distributed 
  annotation system.  The client integrates multiple sources of 
  genomic information into an single view.  

o License Information
  Geodesic is distributed under the GPL.  

  Read the following files for more information:
  COPYING   -- copyright notice, and information on the free 
		software license
  LICENSE   -- Full text of the GNU Public License, 
		version 2 (see COPYING)

o Getting Geodesic
  WWW home:       http://biodas.org/geodesic/

  The source code for Geodesic is maintained under CVS control,
  see http://biodas.org/geodesic/ for information on obtaining
  the most recent developmental copy.

o Installing Geodesic
  See the file INSTALL for brief instructions.

o Distribution Contents
  Full distribution contents are described in FILES.

o XML Specification for distributed annotation system
  http://biodas.org/documents/spec.html

o Reporting bugs
   This program is under active development. If you use these programs, 
   please help me out and e-mail me with suggestions, comments, and bug 
   reports. (robin@genetics.wustl.edu)

Robin Dowell   
Dept. of Genetics 
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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