Licence and citation¶

Licence¶

The full text is in LICENSE, with attribution notices in NOTICE.

You may use, modify and redistribute the software, including commercially, subject to the licence terms — retain the notices and state significant changes.

Provenance of the implementation¶

openauc is an independent, clean-room implementation. No source code, format-parsing logic or interface design is copied from SEDFIT, SEDPHAT, UltraScan, GUSSI or any other AUC software.

AUCX is a new format defined by this project, so specifying its rules is original authorship rather than reverse-engineering of anyone else's format.

All test and example data is synthetic and redistributable. No bundled third-party binaries.

Citation¶

Citation metadata is in CITATION.cff, which GitHub renders as a "Cite this repository" panel.

cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata below."
title: openauc-io
abstract: >-
  Open-source Python library for importing, validating, standardising,
  visualising and archiving analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) data.
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Finn
    given-names: Ron
repository-code: "https://github.com/ronfinn/openauc-io"
url: "https://github.com/ronfinn/openauc-io"
license: Apache-2.0
version: 0.1.0a1
keywords:
  - analytical ultracentrifugation
  - AUC
  - scientific data
  - data archiving
  - sedimentation

Cite the version you used

The current version is 0.1.0a1, a pre-alpha that has not been released. APIs and behaviour may change. Record the exact commit if reproducibility matters.

Citing openauc documents how data were imported, validated and archived. It is not a citation for any scientific analysis, because openauc performs none.

Dependencies¶

Runtime: pydantic, numpy, xarray, pandas, PyYAML, matplotlib, typer — all permissively licensed (BSD/MIT/PSF-family or Apache-2.0). Their own terms apply to their code.