 This paper contains also the description of the first version of the code and has been cited about 240 times as of 2008-04-24 by publications in international journals studying the abundances of chemical elements in stars.The software package has been developed and is maintained by Christopher Sneden, University of Texas at Austin.The current supported version of the code was released in August 2010 and is described in the MOOG User's Guide (see references below).