6. About

6.1. License

The software is released under the MIT license:

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Karr Lab

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

6.2. Citing DE-Sim

Please use the following reference to cite DE-Sim:

Arthur P. Goldberg & Jonathan Karr. (2020). DE-Sim: an object-oriented, discrete-event simulation tool for data-intensive modeling of complex systems in Python. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(55), 2685.

6.3. Contributing to DE-Sim

We enthusiastically welcome contributions to DE-Sim! Please see the guide to contributing and the developer’s code of conduct.

6.4. Development team

This package was developed by the Karr Lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA by the following individuals:

6.5. Acknowledgements

This work was supported by National Science Foundation award 1649014, National Institutes of Health award R35GM119771, and the Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology.

6.6. Questions and comments

Please submit questions and issues to GitHub or contact the Karr Lab.