Acknowledgements

We thank the eclipse team for developing a wonderful IDE, which greatly accelerated the development of Jstacs.

Libraries

The development of Jstacs greatly profited from the following libraries

• BioJava
• numerical methods from JTEM
• Rserve
• RandomNumberGenerator was adapted from Sundar Dorai-Raj

Contributors

• Andre Gohr
• Jan Grau
• Ivo Grosse
• Berit Haldemann
• Jens Keilwagen
• Michaela Mohr
• Stefan Posch
• Michael Seifert

Funding

Jstacs was supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF Grant No. 0312706A/D) within the Bioinformatics Centre Gatersleben - Halle and is supported by the Ministry of Culture, Saxony-Anhalt, grant XP3624/0606T.