About the Authors

Lincoln D Stein

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: lstein@cshl.org

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Zhirong Bao

Affiliations Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Darin Blasiar

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Thomas Blumenthal

Affiliation Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, United States of America

Michael R Brent

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Nansheng Chen

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

Asif Chinwalla

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Laura Clarke

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Chris Clee

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Avril Coghlan

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Alan Coulson

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Peter D'Eustachio

Affiliations Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

David H. A Fitch

Affiliation Department of Biology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

Lucinda A Fulton

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Robert E Fulton

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Sam Griffiths-Jones

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Todd W Harris

Affiliation Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States of America

LaDeana W Hillier

Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ravi Kamath

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Patricia E Kuwabara

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Elaine R Mardis

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Marco A Marra

Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada

Tracie L Miner

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Patrick Minx

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

James C Mullikin

Affiliations Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert W Plumb

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Jane Rogers

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Jacqueline E Schein

Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver, Canada

Marc Sohrmann

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

John Spieth

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Jason E Stajich

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Chaochun Wei

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

David Willey

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Richard K Wilson

Affiliation Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Richard Durbin

Affiliation Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Robert H Waterston

Affiliations Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no conflicts of interest exist.

Author Contributions

L. W. Hillier, E. R. Mardis, J. C. Mullikin, J. Rogers, R. Durbin, and R. H. Waterston conceived and designed the experiments.