Team, Funding & License

The BioImageXD Team

The main development team

Pasi Kankaanpää
Lassi Paavolainen
Varpu Marjomäki
Jyrki Heino
Daniel White

Former members of the main development team:

Kalle Pahajoki
Heikki Uuksulainen

BioImageXD is based on the work of the Selli project, which included the following people:

Juha Hyytiäinen
Jaakko Mäntymaa
Kalle Pahajoki
Jukka Varsaluoma

The following people have also significantly contributed to the development of BioImageXD:

Jorma Virtanen, Nanoscience Centre, University of Jyväskylä (funding and ideas)
Karl Garsha, Photometrics and Optical Insights (Leica reader and Apple Mac OS X know how)
Mikko Huhtala, Åbo Akademi (web page and license issues assistance)

The following companies have supported the development of BioImageXD:

We are building a relationship with TeraRecon Inc, manufacturers of the VolumePro1000 hardware accelerated volume rendering boards. These allow real time high quality volume rendering of large datasets, and are compatible with VTK, the engine under the hood of BioImageXD. We hope to support VolumePro1000 hardware on windows, linux and OS X 10.4 platforms.

We are also undergoing cooperation negotiations with some major international companies as well as numerous smaller Finnish companies, many of which have already stated that they definitely want to contribute to the development of BioImageXD.

Funding

University Funding

University of Jyväskylä, Cell Biology, Division of Molecular Recognition and the NanoScience Center; from various grants

University of Turku, Department of Biochemistry and Food Chemistry and the MediCity Research Laboratory; Jyrki Heino, from various grants

Licenses

BioImageXD is licensed under the General Public License. BioImageXD is based on some other open source programs and libraries, which have their own licences. All the relevant licenses are presented below.

• GPL
  
• Python 2.5 License
  
• VTK
• ITK