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The following people have contributed to the development of STEPS

From Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan and University of Antwerp, Belgium:

Erik De Schutter (OIST, UA, since 2006)

  • Project conception and supervision

Iain Hepburn (OIST, UA, since 2008)

  • Development of STEPS since version 1.0.0: Well-mixed and spatial stochastic and deterministic solver implementation
  • Development of the TetVesicle solver for simulations of vesicles and lipid rafts along with endocytosis, exocytosis, clustering, active transport, etc.
  • Voltage calculation on tetrahedral mesh (EField) implementation
  • Serial TetOpSplit development
  • SBML support
  • Meshio utilities
  • Diffusion Boundaries for Tetexact and TetOpSplit
  • Contribution to Swig and Cython bindings
  • Validation design, testing, and documentation

Weiliang Chen (OIST, since 2009)

  • Development of STEPS since version 1.0.0: Well-mixed and spatial stochastic solver development
  • Parallel TetOpSplit implementation
  • STEPS 4.0 TetOpSplit development
  • MPI communication templates for TetVesicle solver
  • Implementation of visualization toolkit
  • Assertion and Exception logging overhaul
  • Meshio utilities
  • Utilities supports for third-party software (CUBIT/Trelis, Metis, mesh mapping for swc/hoc morphology)
  • Testing and documentation

Jules Lallouette (OIST, since 2019)

  • Development of the new python API
  • Testing and documentation for the new python API
  • Automatic data saving to HDF5 and XDMF formats
  • Blender visualization with stepsblender python package

Guido Klingbeil (OIST, 2015 - 2019)

  • Matlab Simbiology support utility

Stefan Wils (OIST, UA, 2006 - 2009)

  • Early version implementation (1.0.0): Well-mixed and spatial stochastic solver development
  • Meshio utilities
  • Documentation

From École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Since STEPS version 3.0.0):

Fabien Delalondre

  • Technical lead and coordination for Blue Brain team contribution (to June 2018)

James King

  • Technical lead and coordination for Blue Brain team contribution (from July 2018)

Tristan Carel (from June 2017)

Francesco Casalegno

Samuel Melchior

  • Rejection-based SSA for well mixed solver
  • Optimisation of Wmrk4 non-spatial deterministic solver.

Aleksandr Ovcharenko

  • R123 random number generator
  • Optimization of spatial solver constructors to speedup initialization of simulation with large mesh (3.1.0)

Fernando Pereira

  • Cython bindings
  • Compilation with CMake

Sam Yates

  • Compilation support with CMake
  • Unit testing suite implementation
  • First implementation of parallel EField solver using direct solvers
  • R123 random number generator
  • Other code fixes and optimizations

Giacomo Castiglioni (from October 2020)

  • Improved CMake structure
  • Support for OpenMP and AppleClang
  • Code fixes related to segment-tetrahedron intersection

Christos Kotsalos (from April 2021)

  • Profiling/Instrumentation of STEPS3/STEPS4 (Instrumentor Interface)
  • STEPS4 Performance Optimizations
  • Coupling STEPS & NEURON

Alessandro Cattabiani (since December 2020)

  • STEPS 4.0 validation tests
  • STEPS 4.0 performance optimizations
  • STEPS 4.0 reworked time integration loops, SSA and efeld operators, and occupancy mechanism

Baudouin del Marmol (from November 2019 to March 2021)

  • STEPS 4.0 contributions to the design of the SSA Operator (graph construction, independent graph extraction, initial version of Gibson-Bruck)
  • STEPS 4.0 initial work on the EField operator
  • STEPS 4.0 improved occupancy calculation and alternative initial distribution of molecules proposal

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Ivan Raikov (OIST): Configuration of subversion archive and autotools for STEPS 1.x.

Michele Mattioni: Contributed towards the SBML importer.

Mika Holm: STEPS logo.

If you contributed to STEPS and you name is not included here, please don't hesitate to contact us.