c(
    person("Nicolas T.", "Wirth", , "mail.nicowirth@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre", "cph"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0799-1321")),
    person("Jonathan", "Funk", , "funk.jonathan21@gmail.com", role = "aut",
           comment = c(contribution = "Co-developer of shiny app.")),
    person("Matthias", "Kahm", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Author of 'grofit' package, whose general data structure was adopted for QurvE.")),
    person("Maik", "Kschischo", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Author of 'grofit' package, whose general data structure was adopted for QurvE.")),
    person("Thomas", "Petzoldt", , "thomas.petzoldt@tu-dresden.de", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-4951-6468", contribution = "Creator of the package 'growthrates', whose function for calculating linear regressions served as a template in QurvE.")),
    person("Andrew", "Stein", , "andy.stein@gmail.com", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of 'xgxr' package from which QurvE adopted code to plot axis ticks on log10 scale.")),
    person("Michael W.", "Kearney", , "kearneymw@missouri.edu", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of 'tfse' package from which QurvE adopted the match_arg function.")),
    person("Santiago I.", "Hurtado", , "santih@carina.fcaglp.unlp.edu.ar", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of 'RobustLinearReg' package from which QurvE adopted the Theil Sehn Regression method.")),
    person("Mark", "Heckmann", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of the 'zipFastener' function; source: https://ryouready.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/r-zip-fastener-for-two-data-frames-combining-rows-or-columns-of-two-dataframes-in-an-alternating-manner/")),
    person("Nicholas", "Hamilton", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of the 'colFmt' function.")),
    person("Evan", "Friedland", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of the 'inflect' function.")),
    person("Heather", "Turner", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of the 'base_breaks' function.")),
    person("Georgi N.", "Boshnakov", , "georgi.boshnakov@manchester.ac.uk", role = "ctb",
           comment = c(contribution = "Creator of 'gbRd' package from which functions are used to display function help pages within the shiny app."))
  )