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7 Acknowledgements and copyright

7.1 Acknowledgements

wcd was written after a very productive visit to the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI). SANBI introduced me to the problem and as we needed to have a d2 clustering program for our research, I wrote one. Many people helped but thanks particularly to Winston Hide for alpha and beta testing of the code as well as some very detailed biological analysis. Peter van Heusden was responsbile for significant testing as well as integrating into StackPack.

Ramon Nogueria was responsible for the development of the acd files and wrapper for the EMBOSS implementation. Richard Starfield worked on the Pthreads implementation.

Zsuzsanna Lipták, now at the University of Bielefeld introduced the maths and the algorithms to me, and made sure I knew what I was doing. She also helped me refine the algorithmic innovations in this version of d2 cluster and made several useful suggestions.

Anton Bergheim and Pravesh Ranchod at Wits also gave valuable feedback.

Research grants from the National Bioinformatics Network and the National Research Foundation supported this work.

All the above helped with alpha testing.

7.2 Copyright

The program copyright details are:

     Copyright © Scott Hazelhurst 2003–2008
     School of Computer Science,
     University of the Witwatersrand,
     Johannesburg
     Private Bag 3, 2050 Wits
     South Africa
     scott@cs.wits.ac.za

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public Licence for more details.

Version date: 25 May 2008 $Id: wcd.texi,v 0.4.5.1 2008/03/20 13:22:58 scott Exp scott $

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