SDA was originally developed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) by Razif Gabdoulline and Rebecca Wade, and development continued at EML Research (version 5).

SDA is now distributed from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) (formerly EML Research).
Contributors to the current version:
Razif Gabdoulline, Daria Kokh, Stefan Richter, Mykhaylo Berynskyy, Bingding Huang, Rebecca Wade

For description, see:

Simulation of the Diffusional Association of Barnase and Barstar
Biophys. J. (1997) 72, 1917-1929.

Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Protein-Protein Encounter
Methods (1998) 3, 329-341