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 Cécile Ané, James Bullard,
Éric Durand, Olivier François, Bret Larget, Nick Matzke,
Elizabeth Purdom, Dan Rabosky, Klaus Schliep, Li-San Wang, Yan Wong,
and Peter Wragg. 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).