License and Terms
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GDEE is licensed under the **Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License** (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

**License Summary:**

- **Attribution**: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made
- **NonCommercial**: You may not use the material for commercial purposes
- **ShareAlike**: If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license

**Full License Text:** https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/


**Commercial Use:**

For commercial use or licensing inquiries, please contact:

- **Corresponding Author**: Cláudio M. Soares (claudio@itqb.unl.pt)
- **Institution**: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier

Contributing
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If you have used GDEE in your research and would like to contribute improvements or report issues, please:

1. Visit the project repository
2. Submit bug reports or feature requests through the issue tracker
3. Consider contributing code improvements through pull requests

We appreciate acknowledgment of GDEE's contribution to your research and welcome feedback from the scientific community.

Version History
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- **v1.0.0** (2025): Initial release with core functionality for protein engineering workflows and rescoring with ML-based scoring function

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   For the most up-to-date citation information and version details, please check the project repository and documentation.