EGO ---  A Program for Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Proteins
	  (c) by Markus Eichinger, Helmut Heller and Helmut Grubmueller
				Version VIII

Version EGO_VIII is released and is free for download from this
site.  In this distribution  also sample data  files are provided  in the form
of PDB, PSF and parameter files which help to make a quick and easy start with
EGO. 

To run EGO, you first  have to to  produce the 'lis-files' (which  is the EGO
internal  data format)  by  runnig xpl2lis,  which  is  also included  in  the
distribution.  This is  a  ready-to-run  version  of  the  molecular  dynamics
simulation  program EGO, configured  to run  a small  demonstration simulation
on  a parallel computer  under PARIX, PVM,  or MPI. Also  a sequential version
is included in this release. For the installation see the manual.

The  program is made  available strictly  as is,  no warranty  of any  sort is
given,  nor any promise of support.  The program or any part  of it may not be
used  for commercial purposes, nor included in  any other program that is sold
commercially,  unless the  explicit  approval of  the  authors is  given.  The
program may be used and freely distributed for academic purposes, provided the
authors  are credited in  all publications  describing work  done with  use of
the program. Credit should be given to 

	Markus Eichinger

	Helmut Grubmueller
	Max-Planck-Institut fuer biophysikalische Chemie
	Arbeitsgruppe fuer theoretische molekulare Biophysik
	Am Fassberg 11
	D-37077 Goettingen, GERMANY

        Helmut Heller
        Leibniz Rechenzentrum 
	Barer Str. 21
	D-80333 Muenchen, GERMANY
	
	Paul Tavan
	Institute for Medical Optics, LMU, Muenchen

        and for earlier developments also to 

	Klaus Schulten,
	Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology,
	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 
	U.S.A.

To do so, you can simply cite the following publication:

Markus Eichinger, Helmut Heller, and Helmut Grubmueller, 
"EGO - An Efficient Molecular Dynamics Program and its Application to Protein Dynamics Simulations", Workshop on Molecular Dynamics on Parallel Computers, John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC), Research Centre Juuelich, Germany, 8-10 February 1999, World Scientific, Singapore 912805, Eds.: Ruediger Esser, Peter Grassberger, Johannes Grotendorst, and Marius Lewerenz, pp. 154-174 (2000).

It  is expected  that changes  or additions  to the  program are  sent to  the
authors  for eventual inclusion, to make the program more useful for everyone.

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To  actually run EGO, unpack  the source using
either: gunzip ego_viii.taz; tar -xvf ego_viii.tar
or: gtar -xzvf ego_viii.taz
sometimes gtar is called gnutar.

More information can be found on our WWW page: 
http://www.lrz.de/~heller/ego/index.html
If you have problems running EGO, please contact Helmut Heller at:
  heller@lrz.de.