OCEAN is maintained and distributed by a collaboration of researchers, including the University of Washington, ESRF Grenoble, and NIST Gaithersburg. For a list of contributors see the file CONTRIBUTORS.

By installing and running this software the user agrees to the included license.

Installation instructions are provided in the included file INSTALL.

OCEAN requires a DFT code as a foundation. We strongly encourage any papers including OCEAN calculations to generously cite the work of the ABINIT or QuantumEspresso groups. Optionally, OCEAN can use ONCVPSP and the PseudoDojo collection of pseudopotentials and these should be cited if used.