			Perl module: CaCORE

========= DEPENDENCIES =========================================================

You need the following modules (all available at CPAN):

- Perl 5.6.0 or higher
- XML::DOM
- LWP::UserAgent (It's part of libwww-perl. If you don't have it, some test
		  cases may fail and you can't read files from URLs.)

========= INSTALLATION =========================================================

To configure this module, cd to the directory that contains this README file
and type the following.

	perl Makefile.PL

Alternatively, if you plan to install CaCORE somewhere other than
your system's perl library directory. You can type something like this:

	perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/me/perl INSTALLDIRS=perl

Then to build you run make.

	make

You can then test the module by typing:

	make test

If you have write access to the perl library directories, you may then
install by typing:

	make install

============= CaCORE =========================================================

This is a Perl application programming interface to caCORE hosted vocabulary, metadata,
and biomedical data.

============= Author =========================================================

Shan Jiang <jiangs@mail.nih.gov>

============= COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ============================================

The CaCORE Software License, Version 1.0

Copyright 2001-2006 SAIC. This software was developed in conjunction with the
National Cancer Institute, and so to the extent government employees are co-authors,
any rights in such works shall be subject to Title 17 of the United States Code,
section 105. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list
   of conditions and the disclaimer of Article 5, below. Redistributions in binary 
   form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the
   disclaimer of Article 5 in the documentation and/or other materials provided with
   the distribution.
   
2. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include
   the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by SAIC and
   the National Cancer Institute." If no such end-user documentation is to be included,
   this acknowledgment shall appear in the software itself, wherever such third-party
   acknowledgments normally appear.
   
3. The names "The National Cancer Institute", "NCI" and "SAIC" must not be used to
   endorse or promote products derived from this software. This license does not
   authorize the licensee to use any trademarks owned by either NCI or SAIC.
   
4. This license does not authorize or prohibit the incorporation of this software into
   any third party proprietary programs. Licensee is expressly made responsible for
   obtaining any permission required to incorporate this software into third party
   proprietary programs and for informing licensee's end-users of their obligation
   to secure any required permissions before incorporating this software into third
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