Cite the work
Most tools in the GloTarAn ecosystem have a citable peer-reviewed publication — all open access and free to read. If you use any GloTarAn tool, please cite the appropriate paper below.
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This paper describes the architecture and design of pyglotaran, demonstrating its flexibility as an analysis framework through case studies including photosynthesis energy transfer and photovoltaic systems.
The “LEGO-like” framing refers to the composable megacomplex system, which allows kinetic models to be assembled from reusable building blocks rather than reimplementing the full optimization for each new model type.
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The original publication describing the Glotaran software (now glotaran-legacy). It covers the architecture of the Java/NetBeans application, the interface to TIMP, and the workflow for global and target analysis of transient absorption and fluorescence datasets.
This paper is the primary citation for glotaran-legacy and is one of the most-cited papers in the time-resolved spectroscopy analysis literature.
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The foundational paper for the TIMP R package, describing the partitioned variable projection algorithm and its application to multi-way spectroscopy data. This is the primary citation for TIMP, which underlies both glotaran-legacy and (algorithmically) parts of pyglotaran.
The publications above describe the software in the GloTarAn ecosystem. The paper below is the methodological foundation that underpins this work, and can be cited as a general reference for global and target analysis.