README

RELACS - Relaxed ELectrophysiology Acquisition, Control, and Stimulation
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Copyright (C) 2002-2017 Jan Benda 

RELACS is a user interface for data aquisition.
It is controllable and customizable to your specific
experimental setup by C++ based plugins.
The RePro-plugins ("Research Programs") allow you to
analyze the acquired data and to generate stimuli online
in closed loop.


License
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RELACS is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License (see the file COPYING).

The GNU General Public License does not permit this software to be
redistributed in proprietary programs.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Installation
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For installation instructions, look at the file INSTALL.


Documentation
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RELACS comes with an extensive html-based documentation.  You can read
the documentation with your favorite web browser / html viewer. You
find the user manual in doc/userman/html/index.html and the API
reference in doc/html/index.html. You can also access the user manual
from the Help->Help menu or from the RELACS web page.

On the RELACS web pages you find additional and more general
information. See www.relacs.net


More information about RELACS
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The project home page is:
http://www.relacs.net

RELACS is currently hosted by sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/relacs

You find a list of all people contributing to RELACS 
and their email adresses in the file THANKS.

The file AUTHORS lists the people that were and are contributing code
to RELACS.

There is also a ChangeLog and a NEWS file.