Acknowledgements

Many friends and colleagues have provided encouragement and assistance in the development of MEGA. Beta Test versions of MEGA have been used in the research laboratories of the authors, in the classrooms of Sudhir Kumar at the Arizona State University and Masatoshi Nei at the Pennsylvania State University, and by the thousands of users that signed up for the MEGA Beta program. The feedback and bug reports provided by these groups of users were invaluable to the development team. Almost all facets of design and implementation benefited from their comments and suggestions.

MEGA software development is currently supported by research grants from the National Institutes of Health.