Credits

The 3DNA software package was originally created by Dr. Xiang-Jun Lu in the laboratory of Professor Wilma K. Olson at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers-the State University of New Jersey. Since leaving Rutgers at the end of 2002, Dr. Lu has continued to work on this project as an independent consultant in his spare time.

This 3DNA homepage has been created by Dr. Xiang-Jun Lu using the Ruby on Rails framework. Other significant software tools used in this 3DNA server include Apache2, MySQL5, PHP5 (phpBB3 for the 3DNA forum) and dokuwiki for documentation etc.

3DNA had benefited greatly from interactions with the Nucleic Acid Database (NDB) project led by Professor Helen Berman. Dr. Zukang Feng at the PDB/NDB, Ms. Yurong Xin, Mr. Andrew Colasanti, Mr. Jin Tao, Ms. Fei Xu and other members of the Olson lab., and numerous users from around the globe have helped a lot over the years in making 3DNA a better tool to serve the scientific community.

In particular, we would like to thank Dr. Surjit Dixit (Wesleyan University) for drawing our attention to the PDBML format, and for verifying 3DNA’s generated structures; Dr. Pascal Auffinger (IBMC/CNRS, France) for exploring 3DNA’s many undocumented features, and along the way, has helped in clarifying issues and improved 3DNA; Dr. A. R. Srinivarsan (Rutgers University) for testing 3DNA thoroughly and in extreme cases which helps in cleaning some dark corners in the code, thus making 3DNA more robust.

We thanks Tom Chapin, our administrator, for setting up the server and maintaining the system.

Licenses

3DNA has been licensed by Rutgers—the State University of New Jersey. There are two major types of licenses: commercial and non-commercial. (Wilma, please complete this part in order to release 3DNA v2.0).