PLEASE READ THE (BSD) LICENSE FOR CHROMA (available here) before redistributing or modifying the programme.

• CHROMA is written as free software.

• After each release of the programme becomes stable, the code base of CHROMA will be available for download at

  www.llew.org.uk/chroma/downloadcode.htm

• If you use code from CHROMA in your own projects please cite the following reference:
  CHROMA: consensus-based colouring of multiple alignments for publication. Bioinformatics. 2001 Sep;17(9):845-6.
  This is common academic courtesy if nothing else.

• If you make changes to CHROMA and wish to redistribute the updated programme, please send the modified code back to authors of CHROMA so that they can be folded back into the general release for the benefit of all.

Linux

• The source code is in a tarred gzip.  
• The source should compile cleanly with GCC 4.0 and upwards
• The chroma source depends on the boost c++ library which needs to be installed first
• Please contact me if you have any problems.

• The windows source is being revamped to make it compatible with the latest MS c++ compiler.
  If you want VS 6.0 compatible code in the meantime, please contact me.
• Certain portion of the Windows source code is free but copyrighted MFC UI code from third parties (listed below)

• The colour arrangement in the "web-safe" palette was provided by Bob Stein (http://www.visibone.com).

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