About the Authors

Laurence D. Hurst

Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Avazeh T. Ghanbarian

Affiliation The Milner Centre for Evolution, Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Alistair R. R. Forrest

Affiliation Center for Life Science Technologies (CLST), Yokohama, Japan

FANTOM consortium

Membership of the Functional Annotation of the Mammalian Genome (FANTOM) Consortium is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Lukasz Huminiecki

lukasz.huminiecki@gmail.com

Affiliations The Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden, The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences (BILS), Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH LDH. Performed the experiments: LH. Analyzed the data: LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: ARRF. Wrote the paper: LH LDH. Analyzed Brawand et al. data [10.1038/nature10532]: ATG. FANTOM5 concepts and management: ARRF.