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message r welcome " "
message r welcome " * In charge:              J.Pety"
message r welcome "   Active developers:      S.Bardeau"
message r welcome "   Main past contributors: V.deSouzaMagalhaes"
message r welcome " "
message r welcome " * Questions? Comments? Bug reports? Mail to: gildas@iram.fr"
message r welcome " "
message r welcome "CUBE is an IRAM software package that aims"
message r welcome "  1. to operate on large Position-Position-Velocity cubes as a "
message r welcome "     whole entity (instead of a collection of images or spectra);"
message r welcome "  2. to keep the possibility to access any image or spectrum;"
message r welcome "  3. to index growing sets of heterogeneous (multi-wavelengths"
message r welcome "     continuum or lines) cubes."
message r welcome " "
message r welcome "CUBE main capabilities are"
message r welcome "  - FITS files as the default input/output file format;"
message r welcome "  - Indexation of data sets;"
message r welcome "  - Data and header editing capabilities;"
message r welcome "  - A library of data manipulation algorithms, including"
message r welcome "    consistency checks, easy resampling and reprojection,"
message r welcome "    line and image stacking or spectral fitting."
message r welcome " "
message r welcome "In all these tasks, CUBE natively implements parallelisation,"
message r welcome "the treatment of NaN, an integrated handling of units, and"
message r welcome "the possibility that large datasets do not fit into the available"
message r welcome "RAM memory."
message r welcome " "
message r welcome "This is the first beta release of CUBE."
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