Preface and Disclaimer
======================

|Gromacs| - |version|

Contributions from:

Emile Apol, Rossen Apostolov, Paul Bauer, Herman J.C. Berendsen,
Pär Bjelkmar, Christian Blau, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Kevin Boyd,
Aldert van Buuren, Rudi van Drunen, Anton Feenstra, Gerrit Groenhof,
Anca Hamuraru, Vincent Hindriksen, M. Eric Irrgang, Aleksei Iupinov,
Christoph Junghans, Joe Jordan, Dimitrios Karkoulis, Peter Kasson,
Jiri Kraus, Carsten Kutzner, Per Larsson, Justin A. Lemkul,
Viveca Lindahl, Magnus Lundborg, Erik Marklund,Pascal Merz,
Pieter Meulenhoff, Teemu Murtola, Szilárd Páll, Sander Pronk,
Roland Schulz, Michael Shirts, Alexey Shvetsov, Alfons Sijbers,
Peter Tieleman, Teemu Virolainen, Christian Wennberg, and Maarten Wolf.

Mark Abraham, Berk Hess, David van der Spoel, and Erik Lindahl.

© 1991 -- 2000:

    Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Groningen.
    Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands.

© 2001 -- |thisyear|:

    The |Gromacs| development teams at the Royal Institute of Technology and
    Uppsala University, Sweden.


This manual is not complete and has no pretension to be so due
to lack of time of the contributors -- our first priority is to improve
the software. It is worked on continuously,
which in some cases might mean the information is not entirely correct.

Comments on form and content are welcome, please send them to one of
the mailing lists (see our `webpage`_ or this section on
how to :ref:`contribute <gmx-contribute>`), or open an issue
on our `redmine`_. Corrections can also be made in the |Gromacs| git
source repository and uploaded to the |Gromacs| `gerrit`_.

We release an updated version of the manual whenever
we release a new version of the software, so in general 
it is a good idea to use a manual with the same major and
minor release number as your |Gromacs| installation. 

Citation information
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When citing this document in any scientific publication
please refer to it as:

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    M.J. Abraham, D. van der Spoel, E. Lindahl, B. Hess, and the GROMACS development team,
    |Gromacs| User Manual version |version|,
    `http://www.gromacs.org <http://www.gromacs.org>`__ 

However, we prefer that you cite (some of) the |Gromacs|
papers:

* \ :ref:`Bekker et al. (1993) <refBekker93a>`
* \ :ref:`Berendsen et al. (1995) <refBerendsen95a>`
* \ :ref:`Lindahl et al. (2001) <refLindahl2001a>`
* \ :ref:`van der Spoel at al. (2005) <refSpoel2005a>`
* \ :ref:`Hess et al. (2008) <refHess2008b>`
* \ :ref:`Pronk et al. (2013) <refPronk2013>`
* \ :ref:`Pall et al. (2015) <refPall2015>`
* \ :ref:`Abraham et al. (2015) <refAbraham2015>`

when you publish your results. Any future development depends on academic research
grants, since the package is distributed as free software!

|Gromacs| is *Free Software*
----------------------------

The entire |Gromacs| package is available under the GNU Lesser
General Public License (LGPL), version 2.1. This means it's free as in free
speech, not just that you can use it without paying us money.
You can redistribute |Gromacs| and/or modify it under the terms of the LGPL
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For details, check the COPYING file in the source code or consult
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The |Gromacs| source code and selected set of binary packages are
available on our homepage, `www.gromacs.org <http://www.gromacs.org>`__. Have fun.

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