Legal notice

Legal notice

Most protein structure bioinformatics services, hereafter called facilities are freely distributed and/or available as servers, services, and/or databases. The facilities are made available and/or distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY and without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The copyright holders and/or related parties provide the data "AS IS", without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of these facilities is with you. Should any facility prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

Unless explicitly mentioned otherwise, the copyrights for ALL information stored in the facilities belong to the CMBI. You are free to make unlimited use of the facilities for teaching purposes and for all forms of research. It is strictly forbidden to redistribute any of the facilities or to use them for any other purpose than teaching or your own research. The use of the facilities should be properly acknowledged.

Informal translation of the legal notice

One can freely extract the facilities. Facilities that are marked with a copyright notice other than "person, CMBI" (person being a CMBI employee) or just "CMBI" can not be copied or extracted without permission from those copyright owners. It is allowed to modify and redistribute the data on a very limited (non-commercial; own research group or institute only) scale, provided the copyright notices are not removed. (All modifications must be documented and the modifier must be identified and take scientific responsibility for the modification). The facilities can freely be used, but it is neither allowed to sell the data, nor is it allowed to redistribute the facilities directly or indirectly for commercial purposes. It is not allowed to include these facilities in other servers or services, but you are free to point at the facilities at our server. Please inform me if you point at our data as part of other services.

Rules for usage

We spent (and spend) lots of time on these facilities. Nothing is for free in the world. That does not hold for these facilities, but please participate. Send us bug reports. Be aware that your usage is logged. Users who want to obtain a local copy of the entire facilities should contact us.