About the Authors

Andrew R. Deans

adeans@psu.edu

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Suzanna E. Lewis

Affiliation Genome Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Eva Huala

Affiliations Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, California, United States of America, Phoenix Bioinformatics, Palo Alto, California, United States of America

Salvatore S. Anzaldo

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Michael Ashburner

Affiliation Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James P. Balhoff

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

David C. Blackburn

Affiliation Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Judith A. Blake

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

J. Gordon Burleigh

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Bruno Chanet

Affiliation Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Paris, France

Laurel D. Cooper

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Mélanie Courtot

Affiliation Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Sándor Csösz

Affiliation MTA-ELTE-MTM, Ecology Research Group, Pázmány Péter sétány 1C, Budapest, Hungary

Hong Cui

Affiliation School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Wasila Dahdul

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Sandip Das

Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi, India

T. Alexander Dececchi

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Agnes Dettai

Affiliation Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Paris, France

Rui Diogo

Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington D.C., United States of America

Robert E. Druzinsky

Affiliation Department of Oral Biology, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Michel Dumontier

Affiliation Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford, California, United States of America

Nico M. Franz

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

Frank Friedrich

Affiliation Biocenter Grindel and Zoological Museum, Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany

George V. Gkoutos

Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, United Kingdom

Melissa Haendel

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics & Epidemiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Luke J. Harmon

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Terry F. Hayamizu

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

Yongqun He

Affiliation Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, and Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Heather M. Hines

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nizar Ibrahim

Affiliation Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Laura M. Jackson

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Pankaj Jaiswal

Affiliation Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

Christina James-Zorn

Affiliation Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Sebastian Köhler

Affiliation Institute for Medical Genetics and Human Genetics, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Guillaume Lecointre

Affiliation Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Paris, France

Hilmar Lapp

Affiliation National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Carolyn J. Lawrence

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Development and Cell Biology and Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

Nicolas Le Novère

Affiliation Signalling ISP, Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridgeshire, UK

John G. Lundberg

Affiliation Department of Ichthyology, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

James Macklin

Affiliation Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Austin R. Mast

Affiliation Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

Peter E. Midford

Affiliation Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

István Mikó

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Christopher J. Mungall

Affiliation Genome Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Anika Oellrich

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

David Osumi-Sutherland

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Helen Parkinson

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom

Martín J. Ramírez

Affiliation Division of Arachnology, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Stefan Richter

Affiliation Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 2, Rostock, Germany

Peter N. Robinson

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Genetik und Humangenetik Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Alan Ruttenberg

Affiliation School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Katja S. Schulz

Affiliation Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Erik Segerdell

Affiliation Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Katja C. Seltmann

Affiliation Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

Michael J. Sharkey

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America

Aaron D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States of America

Barry Smith

Affiliation Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Chelsea D. Specht

Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, Integrative Biology, and the University and Jepson Herbaria, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

R. Burke Squires

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Robert W. Thacker

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Anne Thessen

Affiliation The Data Detektiv, 1412 Stearns Hill Road, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Jose Fernandez-Triana

Affiliation Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Mauno Vihinen

Affiliation Department of Experimental Medical Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Peter D. Vize

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Lars Vogt

Affiliation Universität Bonn, Institut für Evolutionsbiologie und Ökologie, Bonn, Germany

Christine E. Wall

Affiliation Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ramona L. Walls

Affiliation iPlant Collaborative University of Arizona, Thomas J. Keating Bioresearch Building, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Monte Westerfeld

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States of America

Robert A. Wharton

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College, Station, Texas, United States of America

Christian S. Wirkner

Affiliation Allgemeine & Spezielle Zoologie, Institut für Biowissenschaften, Universität Rostock, Universitätsplatz 2, Rostock, Germany

James B. Woolley

Affiliation Department of Entomology, Texas A & M University, College, Station, Texas, United States of America

Matthew J. Yoder

Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

Aaron M. Zorn

Affiliation Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Division of Developmental Biology, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

Paula Mabee

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.