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Copyright (c) 2025 reyhaneh-tavakoli and contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

1) The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in 
   all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

2) Proper credit must be given to the authors and CleaveRNA project in any 
   publications, presentations, or derivative works that use this software.
   Citation format is provided in the CITATION file.

3) Any redistribution of the Software or derived works must retain the original
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ATTRIBUTION NOTICE:
When using CleaveRNA in your research or applications, please cite:

[Author names]. (2025). CleaveRNA: Machine Learning-Based Prediction of 
DNAzyme Cleavage Sites in RNA Sequences. GitHub repository: 
https://github.com/reyhaneh-tavakoli/CleaveRNA

This software builds upon:
- ViennaRNA Package for RNA structure prediction
- IntaRNA for RNA-RNA interaction prediction
Please cite these dependencies as well when applicable.
