$Id: README 2528 2005-11-19 09:23:59Z shafi $

      Release notes for E-Cell Simulation Environment Version 3 (E-Cell SE 3)
                                        Koichi Takahashi <shafi@e-cell.org>



== About ==

E-Cell is a generic software package for cellular modeling and simulation.  





== Files and directories ==

README:    This file
INSTALL:   Installation instructions
ChangeLog: Automatically generated cvs log 
NEWS:      Project log
COPYING:   License
AUTHORS:   List of authors



ecell/       --> Core portion of E-Cell SE 3, or Hekkoro
ecell/libecs --> Koyurugi: Class library for cell modeling and simulation
                           (E-Cell SE 3's innermost core)
ecell/libemc --> E-Cell Micro Core (EMC): C++ API of Koyurugi
ecell/pyecs  --> Python binding of EMC and Koyurugi
ecell/pyecell--> Python E-Cell library

osogo/       --> GUI session monitor (gecell)

modeleditor/ --> GUI model editor (ecell3-modeleditor)

toollauncher/--> GUI tool launcher 

dmtool/      --> C++ class library for dynamic loading of object classes

doc/         --> Documentations 
doc/users_manual -> Users manual
doc/sample/* --> Sample models


(Below are third-party packages)

libltdl/     --> Libtool's dynamic module loader library




== About code names ==


  Hekkoro  -- Code name for E-Cell SE Version 3 (libecs, libemc and pyecs)
  Koyurugi -- Code name for the libecs class library
  Osogo    -- Code name for the GUI Session monitor (gecell)

  (Serizawa -- Code name for E-Cell 1)



