Credits

IDTrack is developed and maintained by researchers committed to reproducible and transparent biological identifier mapping.

Development Lead

Kemal Inecik

Lead Developer

k.inecik@gmail.com

GitHub

Contributors

We welcome contributions from the community! The following individuals have contributed to IDTrack through code, documentation, bug reports, or feature suggestions:

Contributors are credited automatically through the project’s Git history. The most up-to-date list is available on GitHub.

See the Contributor Guide guide to learn how you can help improve IDTrack. You can also see the live contributor list on GitHub: github.com/theislab/idtrack/graphs/contributors.

Acknowledgments

IDTrack builds upon the work of many open-source projects and biological databases. We are grateful to the developers and maintainers of these resources.

Data Sources

Database	Description
Ensembl	Genome annotation, identifier history, and cross-references
HGNC	Human Gene Nomenclature Committee - official human gene symbols
MGI	Mouse Genome Informatics - mouse gene nomenclature and annotation
RGD	Rat Genome Database - rat gene nomenclature and annotation
UniProt	Universal Protein Resource - protein sequence and annotation
NCBI Gene	National Center for Biotechnology Information - gene information

Software Dependencies

IDTrack relies on excellent open-source software:

Package	Purpose
NetworkX	Graph data structures and algorithms
pandas	Data manipulation and analysis
NumPy	Numerical computing
AnnData	Annotated data matrices for single-cell analysis
h5py	HDF5 file format support
requests	HTTP library for database downloads
Rich	Beautiful terminal output and progress bars

Documentation Tools

Tool	Purpose
Sphinx	Documentation generation
nbsphinx	Jupyter notebook integration
Read the Docs	Documentation hosting

Institutional Support

This project was developed at:

Theis Lab, Helmholtz Center Munich
Institute of Computational Biology

We thank the lab members and collaborators for their feedback and support during development.

Citing IDTrack

If you use IDTrack in your research, please cite:

@software{idtrack,
  author = {Inecik, Kemal},
  title = {IDTrack: Cross-Temporal and Cross-Database Biological Identifier Mapping},
  url = {https://github.com/theislab/idtrack},
  year = {2025}
}

For academic publications, you may also cite the specific version you used:

@software{idtrack_version,
  author = {Inecik, Kemal},
  title = {IDTrack},
  version = {0.0.5},
  url = {https://github.com/theislab/idtrack},
  year = {2025}
}

License

IDTrack is released under the BSD 3-Clause License. For the full license text, see the repository file: LICENSE.