CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT FOR END-USERS FOR THE USE OF HBPLUS

In regard to the HBPLUS program, specified in Appendix 1 herewith (the Software) supplied to us, the copyright and other intellectual property rights to which belong to the authors, we undertake to the authors that we shall be bound by the following terms and conditions:-

1. We will receive the Software and any related documentation in confidence and will not use the same except for the purpose of the department's own research. The Software will be used only by such of our officers or employees to whom it must reasonably be communicated to enable us to undertake our research and who agree to be bound by the same confidence. The department shall procure and enforce such agreement from its staff for the benefit of the authors.

2. The publication of research using the Software must reference "McDonald IK & Thornton JM (1994), 'Satisfying Hydrogen Bonding Potential in Proteins', Journal of Molecular Biology 238:777-793"

3. Research shall take place solely at the department's premises.

4. All forms of the Software will be kept in a reasonably secure place to prevent unauthorised access.

5. Each copy of the Software or, if not practicable then, any package associated therewith shall be suitably marked (and such marking maintained) with the following copyright notice: "Copyright 1991-3 Ian McDonald, Dorica Naylor, David Jones, S Hubbard, R A Laskowski and Janet M Thornton All Rights Reserved".

6. The Software may be modified but any changes made shall be made available to the authors.

7. The Software shall be used exclusively for academic teaching and research. The Software will not be used for any commercial research or research associated with an industrial company.

8. The confidentiality obligation in paragraph one shall not apply:

   1. to information and data known to the department at the time of receipt hereunder (as evidenced by its written records);

   2. to information and data which was at the time of receipt in the public domain or thereafter becomes so through no wrongful act of the department;

   3. to information and data which the department receives from a third party not in breach of any obligation of confidentiality owed to the authors.

APPENDIX 1 - DETAILS OF THE HBPLUS PROGRAM PROVIDED

Files to be included