.. _people:

People
===============================================================================

*ProDy* is being developed in the `Bahar Lab`_ at the `University of Pittsburgh`_
with support from NIH R01 GM099738 award.

Development Team
----------------

`Ahmet Bakan`_ initiated the *ProDy* project, designed and developed
*ProDy*, *NMWiz*, *Evol*, and *DruGUI*.

`Cihan Kaya`_ was overseeing the overall development of *ProDy* from 
2015 to 2018.

`She (John) Zhang`_ was helping with maintaining and developing
*ProDy* from 2016, and took on the overseeing role from 2018 to mid 2020.

`James Krieger`_ was helping develop *ProDy* from 2017 and became the main 
overseer and developer in mid 2020.

`Hongchun Li`_ is currently maintaining and developing ANM and GNM servers, 
and made significant contributions to :mod:`.database` and :mod:`.dynamics` 
including *SignDy* and Adaptive ANM.

`Yan Zhang`_ contributed significantly to the development of 
the *cryo-EM* module, :mod:`.protein.emdmap`.

`Burak Kaynak`_ contributed significantly to the development of 
:mod:`.domain_decomposition` and :mod:`.dynamics.essa`, 
and is in the process of adding other modules too.

`Anindita Dutta`_ contributed to the development of *Evol*,
:mod:`.database` and :mod:`.sequence` modules.

`Tim Lezon`_ contributed to development of Rotations and Translation of
Blocks and Membrane ENM.

`Wenzhi Mao`_ contributed to development of MSA analysis functions.

`Lidio Meireles`_ provided insightful comments on the design of *ProDy*,
and contributed to the development of :ref:`prody-apps`.

Contributors
------------

In addition to the development team members, we acknowledge
contributions and feedback from the following individuals:


`Ying Liu`_ provided the code for Perturbation Response Scanning method.

`Kian Ho`_ contributed with bug fixes and unit tests for DSSP functions.

`Gökçen Eraslan`_ contributed with bug fixes and development and maintenance
insights.


.. _Ahmet Bakan: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-QAYVgMAAAAJ&hl=en
.. _Cihan Kaya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cihan-kaya/
.. _Bahar Lab: http://www.ccbb.pitt.edu/faculty/bahar/
.. _University of Pittsburgh: http://www.pitt.edu/
.. _Anindita Dutta: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anindita-dutta/5a/568/a90
.. _Wenzhi Mao: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/wenzhi-mao/2a/29a/29
.. _Lidio Meireles: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lidio
.. _Ying Liu: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ying-liu/15/48b/5a9
.. _Kian Ho: https://github.com/kianho
.. _Gökçen Eraslan: http://blog.yeredusuncedernegi.com/
.. _Tim Lezon: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/Faculty/Lezon/
.. _Chakra Chennubhotla: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/Faculty/Chakra/
.. _She (John) Zhang: https://www.linkedin.com/in/she-zhang-49164399/
.. _Hongchun Li: http://www.pitt.edu/~hongchun/
.. _James Krieger: http://www.csb.pitt.edu/Faculty/bahar/lab.html
.. _Yan Zhang: https://www.csb.pitt.edu/Faculty/bahar/lab.html
.. _Burak Kaynak: https://www.csb.pitt.edu/Faculty/bahar/lab.html