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 If you are using GitHub pages for hosting, this command is a convenient way to build the website and push to the `gh-pages` branch.
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+## Maintained by
+This project is developed and maintained by the [NFDI4Chem partners](https://www.nfdi4chem.de/) at the [Friedrich Schiller University](https://www.uni-jena.de/en/) Jena, Germany. 
+The code for this web application is released under the [MIT license](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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+<p align="left"><a href="https://nfdi4chem.de/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.nfdi4chem.de/wp-content/themes/wptheme/assets/img/logo.svg" width="50%" alt="NFDI4Chem Logo"></a></p>
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+## Acknowledgments
+
+Funded by the [Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)](https://www.dfg.de/) under the [National Research Data Infrastructure – NFDI4Chem](https://nfdi4chem.de/) – Projektnummer **441958208**.
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+<p align="left"><a href="https://www.dfg.de/" target="_blank"><img src="./static/img/dfg_logo_schriftzug_blau_foerderung_en.gif" width="50%" alt="DFG Logo"></a></p>
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