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Acknowledgments

Contributers

many thanks to Prof. Frömmel who encouraged me to develop this tool, to the reviewers of the journal Bioinformatics for their advice and valuable criticism.

Marcel van den Bosch created the Wiki site http://www.bioinformatics.nu/

Kristian Rother helped with Windows.

Andrean Goede contributed his superposition program.

Andreas Hoppe, Robert Preissner, Armin Weiser gave many valuable hints.

Nick Robinson made the concept for the publication HotSwap for bioinformatics

Hergo Holzhütters group for testing and improving Metannogen.

The Jena Library team: Jürgen Sühnel and Rolf Hühne for their expertize on biological units.

BTIhelped improving GUI.

Software tools used for developing STRAP

STRAP was developed with the following free software tools:

JDK by Sun and IBM
Java tools and libs: FindBugs, PMD, edtFTPj, pdfbox JOrtho, Neobio, OpenAstexViewer, Pymol
Retroweaver, by Toby Reyelts which allows to run STRAP on older Java versions
HTML-syntax checkers: Tidy and Watson
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This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

Thanks to all who tested STRAP on different computer platforms: Andreas Gille, Koen van der Drift, ...

Collaboration

Jena Library: Jürgen Sühnel and Rolf Hühne
EBI: Rodrigo Lopez and Roman Laskowski

In publications
please cite: KISS for STRAP or STRAP or Structural interpretation of mutations and SNPs using STRAP-NT