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title: "About"
date: 2019-09-30 11:30
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The purpose of the QUEST project is to build a comprehensive dataset of highly-accurate vertical excitation energies and properties in order to ease comparisons between computational methods designed the electronic structure community.

QUEST is a collaborative project involving:

- [Denis Jacquemin](https://www.univ-nantes.fr/denis-jacquemin-633107.kjsp)
from the [CEISAM laboratory](http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/CEISAM) in Nantes (France).
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- [Filippo Lipparini](https://people.unipi.it/filippo_lipparini)
from the [Universita di Pisa](https://unipi.it) in Pisa (Italy).
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- [Mickaël Véril](http://www.lcpq.ups-tlse.fr/spip.php?article1885), [Michel Caffarel](http://qmcchem.ups-tlse.fr/index.php?title=Michel_Caffarel), [Martial Boggio-Pasqua](http://www.lcpq.ups-tlse.fr/spip.php?article557), [Anthony Scemama](https://scemama.github.io), and [Pierre-François Loos](http://www.irsamc.ups-tlse.fr/loos),
from the [LCPQ laboratory](http://www.lcpq.ups-tlse.fr) in Toulouse (France).
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Please report problems/bugs on the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/LCPQ/QUESTDB_website/issues).
