Info

SPARKY is a graphical NMR assignment and integration program. Originally developed at UCSF by Tom Goddard and Don Kneller. Now maintained as NMRFAM-SPARKY by Woonghee Lee at NMRFAM (National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison). Free for academic use.

People

NameRoleAffiliation
Thomas GoddardOriginal developerUCSF (now also ChimeraX)
Woonghee LeeCurrent maintainer (NMRFAM-SPARKY)University of Colorado Denver / NMRFAM

Tom Goddard overlap

Thomas Goddard developed both SPARKY and is the lead developer of ChimeraX. This is a notable crossover between NMR and visualization software communities at UCSF.

Key Reference

Lee et al., Bioinformatics 31, 1325-1327 (2015) (NMRFAM-SPARKY) Goddard & Kneller (2008) SPARKY 3, UCSF