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Acknowledgements

External Software Sources

We have made use of the following external software sources, and would like to thank their creators.

Contributors

TORTOISE has been developed at the Section on Tissue Biophysics and Biomimetics (STBB), part of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Special thanks to the many contributors to the software:

  • Alan Barnett
  • Peter Basser
  • Lin-Ching Chang
  • Michael Curry
  • David Hughes
  • M. Okan Irfanoglu
  • Cheng Guan Koay
  • Stuart McMurray
  • Sinisa Pajevic
  • Carlo Pierpaoli
  • Gustavo Rohde
  • Lindsay Walker
  • Minjie Wu