
 ABE, A bioassay data analysis package written in Python
 Copyright (c) Gordon Webster, EMD Lexigen Research Center 2002, 2003

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

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 The use of ABE under the terms of the GNU General Public License is described in
 more detail in the HTML version of the ABE manual, included with this software.

 See the ABE homepage at http://abe-module.sourceforge.net



 Version release Notes:
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 This is the Python source for ABE 1.0
 (c) 2002, 2003 Gordon Webster, EMD Lexigen research Center
 Gordon can be contacted via his email address: gwebster@users.sourceforge.net

 The Matfunc module was written by Raymond Hettinger (email: python@rcn.com)
 and may be freely used and distributed under a Public Domain License.



 Source Code Notes:
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 In addition to a current Python distribution (2.2 or later) that includes the
 standard Tkinter, xml libraries etc. ABE 1.0 requires the following Python
 modules in the Python Path:

 Abe.py		The primary source code for the ABE package
 Matfuc.py	Raymond Hettinger's vector and matrix math module
 ABE.pyw	If you want to run ABE as a windowed (non-console) Python
		Tkinter application (i.e. without the Python shell)

 The Numeric Python package (see http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/)
 The Scientific Python package (see http://www.scipy.org)


