OpenSim is supported by the National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR) is a National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research funded by NIH research infrastructure grant P2C HD065690. OpenSim is also supported by Simbios, the NIH National Center for Physics-Based Simulation of Biological Structures at Stanford, grant U54 GM072970, and by DARPA through the Warrior Web Program.
See the Authors page for a list of the many people who have contributed to the OpenSim project over the years.
OpenSim relies on a wide variety of third-party software (licenses are in parentheses):
- GUI:
- Java NetBeans (CDDL)
- JxBrowser (JxBrowser Product License Agreement, with LGPL components; used in OpenSim 4.0 and above)
- Jython (Python Software Foundation License Version 2)
- JFreeChart (LGPL)
- Java (Oracle Binary Code License Agreement)
- three.js (MIT; https://threejs.org )
- OpenSim Libraries and Application Programming Interface (API):
- Simbody (Apache License 2.0)
- TinyXML (zlib license; http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/)
- POSIX Threads for Windows (LGPL)
- GLUT (MIT/custom)/FreeGLUT
- LAPACK, BLAS
- LBFGS and LBFGSB (BSD-3-Clause)
- IPOPT (EPL-1.0)
- Biomechanical Toolkit (BSD-3-Clause)
- docopt.cpp (MIT)
- OpenMM Lepton (MIT)
- Simbody (Apache License 2.0)
The source code for LGPL components can be obtained from the links above.
The following software tools are used when building (compiling) OpenSim:
- CMake
- Visual Studio
- GCC
- Clang
- SWIG (http://swig.org/)
- Python
- Doxygen (www.doxygen.org)