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       <p>The SourceForge cctbx project is organized in modules to facilitate
       use in non-crystallographic applications. The scitbx module implements
       a general purpose array family for scientific applications and pure C++
-      ports of FFTPACK and the LBFGS conjugate gradient minimizer.</p>
+      ports of FFTPACK and the L-BFGS quasi-Newton minimizer.</p>
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     <dt><a href="http://www.llnl.gov/CASC/emsolve"><b>EMSolve</b></a></dt>