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+#ifndef __VIENNA_RNA_PACKAGE_PARAMS_H__
+#define __VIENNA_RNA_PACKAGE_PARAMS_H__
+
+#include "energy_const.h"
+#include "data_structures.h"
+
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+#define DEPRECATED(func) func __attribute__ ((deprecated))
+#else
+#define DEPRECATED(func) func
+#endif
+
+/**
+ * \addtogroup energy_parameters
+ * \brief All relevant functions to retrieve and copy precalculated energy parameter sets as well as
+ * reading/writing the energy parameter set from/to file(s).
+ *
+ * This module covers all relevant functions for precalculation of the energy parameters
+ * necessary for the folding routines provided by RNAlib. Furthermore, the energy parameter set
+ * in the RNAlib can be easily exchanged by a user-defined one. It is also possible to write the
+ * current energy parameter set into a text file.
+ * @{
+ *
+ * \file params.h
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get precomputed energy contributions for all the known loop types
+ *
+ * \note OpenMP: This function relies on several global model settings variables and thus is
+ * not to be considered threadsafe. See get_scaled_parameters() for a completely threadsafe
+ * implementation.
+ *
+ * \return A set of precomputed energy contributions
+ */
+paramT *scale_parameters(void);
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get precomputed energy contributions for all the known loop types
+ *
+ * Call this function to retrieve precomputed energy contributions, i.e. scaled
+ * according to the temperature passed. Furthermore, this function assumes a
+ * data structure that contains the model details as well, such that subsequent
+ * folding recursions are able to retrieve the correct model settings
+ *
+ * \see #model_detailsT, set_model_details()
+ *
+ * \param temperature The temperature in degrees Celcius
+ * \param md The model details
+ * \return precomputed energy contributions and model settings
+ */
+paramT *get_scaled_parameters(double temperature,
+ model_detailsT md);
+
+paramT *get_parameter_copy(paramT *par);
+
+/**
+ * get a datastructure of type \ref pf_paramT which contains
+ * the Boltzmann weights of several energy parameters scaled
+ * according to the current temperature
+ * \return The datastructure containing Boltzmann weights for use in partition function calculations
+ */
+pf_paramT *get_scaled_pf_parameters(void);
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get precomputed Boltzmann factors of the loop type
+ * dependent energy contributions with independent thermodynamic
+ * temperature
+ *
+ * This function returns a data structure that contains
+ * all necessary precalculated Boltzmann factors for each
+ * loop type contribution.<br>
+ * In contrast to get_scaled_pf_parameters(), this function
+ * enables setting of independent temperatures for both, the
+ * individual energy contributions as well as the thermodynamic
+ * temperature used in
+ * \f$ exp(-\Delta G / kT) \f$
+ *
+ * \see get_scaled_pf_parameters(), get_boltzmann_factor_copy()
+ *
+ * \param temperature The temperature in degrees Celcius used for (re-)scaling the energy contributions
+ * \param betaScale A scaling value that is used as a multiplication factor for the absolute
+ * temperature of the system
+ * \param md The model details to be used
+ * \param pf_scale The scaling factor for the Boltzmann factors
+ * \return A set of precomputed Boltzmann factors
+ */
+pf_paramT *get_boltzmann_factors( double temperature,
+ double betaScale,
+ model_detailsT md,
+ double pf_scale);
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get a copy of already precomputed Boltzmann factors
+ *
+ * \see get_boltzmann_factors(), get_scaled_pf_parameters()
+ *
+ * \param parameters The input data structure that shall be copied
+ * \return A copy of the provided Boltzmann factor dataset
+ */
+pf_paramT *get_boltzmann_factor_copy(pf_paramT *parameters);
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get precomputed Boltzmann factors of the loop type
+ * dependent energy contributions (alifold variant)
+ *
+ */
+pf_paramT *get_scaled_alipf_parameters(unsigned int n_seq);
+
+/**
+ * \brief Get precomputed Boltzmann factors of the loop type
+ * dependent energy contributions (alifold variant) with
+ * independent thermodynamic temperature
+ *
+ */
+PUBLIC pf_paramT *get_boltzmann_factors_ali(unsigned int n_seq,
+ double temperature,
+ double betaScale,
+ model_detailsT md,
+ double pf_scale);
+
+/**
+ * @}
+ */
+
+DEPRECATED(paramT *copy_parameters(void));
+DEPRECATED(paramT *set_parameters(paramT *dest));
+DEPRECATED(pf_paramT *scale_pf_parameters(void));
+DEPRECATED(pf_paramT *copy_pf_param(void));
+DEPRECATED(pf_paramT *set_pf_param(paramT *dest));
+
+
+
+#endif