PyQCPROT

    Author(s) of Original Implementation:     
                  Douglas L. Theobald
                  Department of Biochemistry
                  MS 009
                  Brandeis University
                  415 South St
                  Waltham, MA  02453
                  USA

                  dtheobald@brandeis.edu
                  
                  Pu Liu
                  Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research and Development, L.L.C.
                  665 Stockton Drive
                  Exton, PA  19341
                  USA

                  pliu24@its.jnj.com

                  For the original code written in C see:
                  http://theobald.brandeis.edu/qcp/ 


    Author of Python Port:
                  Joshua L. Adelman
                  Department of Biological Sciences
                  University of Pittsburgh
                  Pittsburgh, PA 15260
                   
                  jla65@pitt.edu

 
    If you use this QCP rotation calculation method in a publication, please
    reference:

      Douglas L. Theobald (2005)
      "Rapid calculation of RMSD using a quaternion-based characteristic
      polynomial."
      Acta Crystallographica A 61(4):478-480.

      Pu Liu, Dmitris K. Agrafiotis, and Douglas L. Theobald (2010)
      "Fast determination of the optimal rotational matrix for macromolecular 
      superpositions."
      J. Comput. Chem. 31, 1561-1563. 


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    Copyright (c) 2011       Joshua L. Adelman
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