TRAPP

License for use of the TRAPP software

Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, HITS gGmbH (HITS), owns the TRAPP software and its associated documentation (“Software”). You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this software. Your use of this Software indicates your acceptance of this license agreement and all terms and conditions. You are hereby granted a non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use the Software according to the following terms and conditions.

Commercial Use

The TRAPP software tools are free for use for non-profit-purposes. If you desire to use TRAPP for profit-making or commercial purposes, you agree to negotiate in good faith a license with HITS prior to such profit-making or commercial use. HITS shall have no obligation to grant such license to you, and may grant exclusive or non-exclusive licenses to others. You agree to notify HITS of any inquiries you have for commercial use of the Software and/or its modifications. You may write to the following email address to discuss commercial use: mcmsoft@h-its.org

Governing Law

This Agreement is governed by the law of the Federal Republic of Germany. The application of the UN Convention on the Sale of Goods is excluded.

Disclaimer of Warranty

Because this software is licensed free of charge, there is no warranty for the program. HITS makes no warranty or representation that the operation of the software in this compilation will be error-free, and HITS is under no obligation to provide any services, by way of maintenance, update, or otherwise. THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE LICENSED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE OR MERCHANTABILITY OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE IS OFFERED. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.

Limitation of Liability

IN NO EVENT WILL HITS gGmbH, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MAY MODIFY AND/OR REDISTRIBUTE THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF HITS gGmbH OR ANOTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Termination

This agreement is effective until terminated. In case a new version of this license agreement is published, you will be notified 4 weeks in advance. This agreement will terminate immediately without notice from HITS gGmbH if you fail to comply with any of the terms and conditions of this license. This agreement will also terminate immediately without notice from the HITS gGmbH if it is found to implement patented algorithms or contain copyrighted code not owned or licensed by HITS for the purpose of its inclusion in the TRAPP software. This agreement cannot be terminated by any other mechanism or for any other reason than those stated herein.

Publication

In any publication describing results from the use of the TRAPP tools, the name and version of the software shall be given and the following publication shall be cited :

DB Kokh, S Richter, S Henrich, P Czodrowski, F Rippmann, RC Wade. TRAPP: a Tool for Analysis of Transient Binding Pockets in Proteins J. Chem. Inf. Model., (2013) 53, 1235–1252.

If either the L-RIP or the RIPlig method is used, the following publication shall be cited:

DB Kokh, P Czodrowski, F Rippmann, RC Wade. Perturbation Approaches for Exploring Protein Binding Site Flexibility to Predict Transient Binding Pockets J. Chem. Theory Comput. (2016) 12, 4100−4113.

If tConcoord method is used, the following publication shall be cited:
Daniel Seeliger, Jürgen Haas and Bert L. de Groot.
Geometry-based sampling of conformational transitions in proteins. Structure 15:1482-1492 (2007)

If the webserver version of TRAPP is used, the following publication shall be cited:

Stank A, Kokh DB, Horn M, Sizikova E, Neil R, Panecka J, Richter S, Wade RC. TRAPP webserver: predicting protein binding site flexibility and detecting transient binding pockets. Nucleic Acids Res. (2017) 45, W325-W330.

Place of Court

The exclusive venue for all disputes arising from or in connection with this Agreement is Mannheim, Germany (HRB 337446), when the Licensee is a business person, a legal entity governed by public law, or a special fund governed by public law, or does not have a general place of jurisdiction within the Federal Republic of Germany.

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Address all correspondence regarding this license to the electronic mail address: mcmsoft@h-its.org. Any inquiries and comments regarding bugs, bug fixes, enhancements, modifications or any other similar issues should also be directed to: mcmsoft@h-its.org