About the Authors

Deanna M. Church

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanna M. Church, Leo Goodstadt

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (DMC); plos@llew.org.uk (LG); kersli@broad.mit.edu (KL-T); eee@gs.washington.edu (EEE); chris.ponting@dpag.ox.ac.uk (CPP)

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leo Goodstadt

Contributed equally to this work with: Deanna M. Church, Leo Goodstadt

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (DMC); plos@llew.org.uk (LG); kersli@broad.mit.edu (KL-T); eee@gs.washington.edu (EEE); chris.ponting@dpag.ox.ac.uk (CPP)

Affiliation MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

LaDeana W. Hillier

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Michael C. Zody

Affiliations The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Steve Goldstein

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Xinwe She

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Carol J. Bult

Affiliation The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Richa Agarwala

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joshua L. Cherry

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Michael DiCuccio

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wratko Hlavina

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Yuri Kapustin

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter Meric

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Donna Maglott

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Zoë Birtle

Affiliation MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Ana C. Marques

Affiliation MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Tina Graves

Affiliation The Genome Center at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Shiguo Zhou

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Brian Teague

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Konstantinos Potamousis

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Christopher Churas

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Michael Place

Affiliation Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Jill Herschleb

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ron Runnheim

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Daniel Forrest

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

James Amos-Landgraf

Affiliation McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

David C. Schwartz

Affiliation Laboratory for Molecular and Computational Genomics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Ze Cheng

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kerstin Lindblad-Toh

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (DMC); plos@llew.org.uk (LG); kersli@broad.mit.edu (KL-T); eee@gs.washington.edu (EEE); chris.ponting@dpag.ox.ac.uk (CPP)

Affiliations The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Evan E. Eichler

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (DMC); plos@llew.org.uk (LG); kersli@broad.mit.edu (KL-T); eee@gs.washington.edu (EEE); chris.ponting@dpag.ox.ac.uk (CPP)

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Chris P. Ponting

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (DMC); plos@llew.org.uk (LG); kersli@broad.mit.edu (KL-T); eee@gs.washington.edu (EEE); chris.ponting@dpag.ox.ac.uk (CPP)

Affiliation MRC Functional Genomics Unit, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium

Membership of The Mouse Genome Sequencing Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

The author(s) have made the following declarations about their contributions: Conceived and designed the experiments: DMC LG DCS KLT CPP. Performed the experiments: DMC LG LWH MZ SG XS CJB RA JLC MD WH YK PM DM ZB ACM TG SZ BT KP CC MP JH RR DF JAL ZC TMGSC. Analyzed the data: DMC LG LWH MZ SG XS CJB DCS ZC EEE CPP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DMC LG. Wrote the paper: DMC LG LWH MZ KLT EEE CPP.