The following persons and institutions helped in the development of
APE at one stage or another.

Many users gave important feed-back with their encouragements,
comments, or bug reports: thanks to all of you!

Significant bug fixes were provided by Ccile An, Jeremy Beaulieu,
James Bullard, Otto Cordero, ric Durand, Olivier Franois, Rich
FitzJohn, Jos Kfer, Bret Larget, Naim Matasci, Nick Matzke, Michael
Phelan, Elizabeth Purdom, Dan Rabosky, Filipe Vieira, Tim Wallstrom,
Li-San Wang, Yan Wong, Peter Wragg, Janet Young, and Jinlong Zhang.
Contact me if I forgot someone.

Kurt Hornik, of the R Core Team, helped in several occasions to
fix some problems and bugs.

Financial support was provided in the early development of APE by
the French "Programme inter-EPST Bioinformatique" (2001-2003).

Financial support was provided by the Department of Information
Systems of IRD in form a "SPIRALES" project (2006).

Financial support was provided by Google to Andrei-Alin Popescu during
the 2011 Google Summer of Code (GSoC 2011).