1.4感谢

作者要特别感谢那些提供建议和改进的人，尤其是那些提供新功能的人。特别感谢Joshua Anderson, Anton Arkhipov, Andrew Dalke, Michael Bach, Alexander Balaeff, Ilya Balabin, Robert Brunner, Eamon Caddigan, Jordi Cohen, Simon Cross, Markus Dittrich, John Eargle, Peter Freddolino, Todd Furlong, Luis Gracia, Paul Grayson, Justin Gullingsrud, James Gumbart, David Hardy, Konrad Hinsen, Barry Isralewitz, Sergei Izrailev, Robert Johnson, Axel Kohlmeyer, Michael Krone, Michelle Kuttell, Benjamin Levine, John Mongan, Jim Phillips, Elijah Roberts, Jan Saam, Charles Schwieters, Marcos Sotomayor, Alexander Spaar, John E. Stone, Johan Strumpfer, Alexey Titov, Leonardo Trabuco, Dan Wright,和 Kirby Vandivort.整个VMD用户社区现在受益于你的贡献。

作者要感谢那些通过提出建议、推出新功能和尝试错误代码间接帮助开发的个人。感谢Aleksei Aksimentiev, Daniel Barsky, Axel Berg, Tom Bishop, Robert Brunner, Ivo Hofacker, Mu Gao, James Gumbart, Xiche Hu, Tim Isgro, Dorina Kosztin, Ioan Kosztin, Joe Landman, Ilya Logunov, Clare Macrae, Amy Shih, Lukasz Salwinski, Stephen Searle, Charles Schwieters, Ari Shinozaki, Svilen Tzonev, Emad Tajkhorshid, Michael Tiemann, Elizabeth Villa, Raymond de Vries, Simon Warfield, Willy Wriggers, Dong Xu, and Feng Zhou.

VMD中使用了诸多外部库和程序包，若缺少这些组件，该程序的功能将大打折扣。VMD开发团队特别感谢以下贡献者：FLTK框架的开发者；Tcl与Tk语言的创造者；Python编程语言的作者们；VRPN工具包的研发人员；Jon Leech提供的均匀点分布算法；Amitabh Varshney贡献的SURF技术；Dmitrij Frishman开发的STRIDE方法；Jack Lund编写的url get perl脚本；Brad Grantham提供的ACTC三角网格整合库；John E. Stone开发的Tachyon光线追踪器、WorkForce线程与计时器例程、哈希表代码以及Spaceball驱动程序；以及Ethan Merrit贡献的其中一条带状图绘制算法。