Chemistry/Mol version 0.30
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This toolkit includes basic objects and methods to describe molecules. It
consists of several modules: Chemistry::Mol, Chemistry::Atom, Chemistry::Bond,
and Chemistry::File. These are the core modules of the PerlMol toolkit;
see http://www.perlmol.org/.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.26
        - New Chemistry::File interface
        - Added gzip support for reading and writing
        - New Atom methods: sprout_hydrogens, collapse_hydrogens, mass_number
        - New Mol methods: sprout_hydrogens, collapse_hydrogens
        - Added support for Chemistry::Isotope
        - Extended the Chemistry::Obj::attr method
        - New Obj methods: new()
        - Fixed backward compatibility bug in File/Dumper.pm
        - Fixed inconsistency when an object id was changed
        - Improved the testing suite

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:
    - perl-5.6.0 or more recent (5.8.0+ recommended)
    - Math::VectorReal
    - Scalar::Util      (already a core module since perl 5.7.3)
    - Test::More        (already a core module since perl 5.7.3)
    - Text::Balanced    (already a core module since perl 5.7.3)
    - IO::String        (required only for versions of perl prior to 5.8.0)

The following modules are optional, but are required by certain functions:
    - Chemistry::InternalCoords
    - Compress::Zlib
    - Chemistry::Isotope

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 Ivan Tubert-Brohman <itub@cpan.org>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.