File	Date	Author	Commit
benchmarks	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
burrow	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
doc	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
patches	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
scripts	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
test-suite	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
utils	2012-01-09	Greg Benison	[91aa8b] Merge branch 'heads/bug-atomic-pointer'
wrapper	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
.bzrignore	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
AUTHORS	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
COPYING	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
INSTALL	2008-02-04	Greg Benison	[412382] merged head branch
INSTALL-PROBLEMS	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
Makefile.am	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
NEWS	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
README	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
THANKS	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
TODO	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
autogen.sh	2007-06-19	Greg Benison	[89cd55] added conversion of generic alists to hashes
burrow-owl.mp3	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
burrow-owl.pc.in	2012-01-09	Greg Benison	[91aa8b] Merge branch 'heads/bug-atomic-pointer'
config.h.in	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
configure.ac	2012-02-11	Greg Benison	[fda115] Merge branch 'bug-gdk-color-test'
suppress_guile.vg	2007-06-04	rcs	[12a1a7] initial import from arch sources
y2k.txt	2008-02-04	Greg Benison	[412382] merged head branch

Read Me

This is burrow-owl, a software package for visualizing
multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)
spectra, with an emphasis on spectra used in
macromolecular structure determination.

burrow-owl incorporates the higher-order spectrum principle,
a way of identifying correlated peaks in
multiple spectra without the need for peaklists.

The name burrow-owl continues the tradition of naming
programs used in structure determination after birds,
started by the program
coot (http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/%7Eemsley/coot/).
burrow-owl and coot are similar in some ways:

- both are free software (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html)
- both draw contour plots with automatic wrap-around and
  instant recontouring
- both use the guile-gtk library (http://www.gnu.org/software/guile-gnome/)
  to provide a modern graphical user interface controlled by a
  high-level scripting language

There are also some important differences:

- coot is for x-ray crystallography; burrow-owl is for NMR.
- The coot is a water-dwelling bird, whereas everybody knows
  that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground.  (Why do you
  think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?)