# AUTHORS — pyvoa (Python Virus Open Analysis)
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## Authors and maintainers

Tristan Beau <tristan.beau@u-pariscite.fr>
    Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LPNHE, F-75005 Paris, France
    ORCID: 0000-0002-2022-2140
    CRediT: Conceptualization, Software, Methodology, Project administration

Julien Browaeys <julien.browaeys@u-pariscite.fr>
    Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Matière et systèmes complexes, F-75013 Paris, France
    ORCID: 0000-0003-4405-9875
    CRediT: Conceptualization, Software, Validation, Supervision

Olivier Dadoun <dadoun@in2p3.fr>
    Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université, CNRS, LPNHE, F-75005 Paris, France
    ORCID: 0000-0002-2169-9725
    CRediT: Conceptualization, Software, Data curation, Visualization

## History

The project has been developed continuously by the same authors under three
successive names:

  CoCoA  Covid Collaborative Analysis, 2020
         started during the Covid Hackathon of April 2020
         https://github.com/tjbtjbtjb/CoCoA (public, archived)
  PyCoA  Python Covid Analysis, 2020–2023
         https://github.com/coa-project/pycoa (no longer public)
  pyvoa  Python Virus Open Analysis, since 2023
         developed in a branch of the PyCoA repository until March 2025
         https://github.com/pyvoa/pyvoa

Earlier contributions are recorded in the git histories of those repositories.
CHANGELOG.md summarises the CoCoA and PyCoA phases of the project and provides
a public account of its development during the PyCoA years.

## Institutional support

Université Paris Cité — https://u-pariscite.fr
LPNHE - Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies (Université Paris Cité and Sorbonne Université, CNRS/IN2P3), UMR 7585 — https://lpnhe.in2p3.fr
MSC — Matière et Systèmes Complexes (Université Paris Cité, CNRS), UMR 7057 — https://msc.u-paris.fr

## Funding

This work was supported by the IdEx « Université Paris Cité 2022 », funded by
the French State under the « Investissements d'avenir » programme [grant number
ANR-18-IDEX-0001]; and by the « Institut Covid-19 Ad Memoriam » of Université
Paris Cité.

Institut Covid-19 Ad Memoriam: https://institut-ad-memoriam.u-pariscite.fr/

The pyvoa team is required to acknowledge both funding sources in its
publications, presentations, posters and other project materials.

Users who reuse pyvoa or publish results obtained with it are not required
to acknowledge these funding sources.
