About the Authors

Jonathan A Eisen

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jaeisen@ucdavis.edu

Current address: University of California Davis Genome Center, Section of Evolution and Ecology, School of Biological Sciences and Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Robert S Coyne

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Martin Wu

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Dongying Wu

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Mathangi Thiagarajan

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer R Wortman

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jonathan H Badger

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Qinghu Ren

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Paolo Amedeo

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Kristie M Jones

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Luke J Tallon

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Arthur L Delcher

Current address: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Steven L Salzberg

Current address: Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Joana C Silva

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Brian J Haas

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

William H Majoros

Current address: Duke Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Maryam Farzad

Current address: Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jane M Carlton

Current address: Department of Medical Parasitology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Roger K Smith Jr.

Current address: Dupont Agriculture and Nutrition, Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

Affiliation The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Jyoti Garg

Affiliation Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ronald E Pearlman

Affiliations Department of Biology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada , Centre for Research in Mass Spectrometry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Kathleen M Karrer

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Lei Sun

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America

Gerard Manning

Affiliation Razavi-Newman Center for Bioinformatics, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, California, United States of America

Nels C Elde

Current address: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

Aaron P Turkewitz

Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

David J Asai

Affiliation Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States of America

David E Wilkes

Affiliation Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, United States of America

Yufeng Wang

Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Hong Cai

Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Kathleen Collins

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

B. Andrew Stewart

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Suzanne R Lee

Affiliation Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Katarzyna Wilamowska

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Zasha Weinberg

Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Walter L Ruzzo

Affiliation Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Dorota Wloga

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Jacek Gaertig

Affiliation Department of Cellular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Joseph Frankel

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

Che-Chia Tsao

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

Martin A Gorovsky

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

Patrick J Keeling

Affiliation Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Ross F Waller

Current address: School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Affiliation Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nicola J Patron

Current address: School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

Affiliation Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

J. Michael Cherry

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Nicholas A Stover

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Cynthia J Krieger

Affiliation Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

Christina del Toro

Current address: Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Hilary F Ryder

Current address: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Sondra C Williamson

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Rebecca A Barbeau

Current address: Lung Biology Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Eileen P Hamilton

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Eduardo Orias

Affiliation Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

JAE coordinated the project. JAE, RSC, EPH, and EO wrote and edited the majority of the manuscript. JAE, RSC, MW, DW, JHB, and MT performed multiple bioinformatics analyses. MT, JRW, PA, MF, RKS, and BJH coordinated the annotation. KMJ and LJT carried out genome closure. ALD and SLS generated and analyzed genome assemblies. JCS, KMK, and LS analyzed mobile DNA elements. WHM generated gene models. QR conducted analyses of membrane transporters. JMC, JG, and REP generated and analyzed ESTs. GM analyzed protein kinases. NCE and APT analyzed membrane trafficking. DJA and DEW analyzed dyneins. YW and HC analyzed proteases. KC, BAS, SRL, WLR, KW, and ZW analyzed ncRNA. DW, JG, MAG, JF, and CCT analyzed cytoskeletal associated proteins. PJK, RFW, NJP, and JHB searched for plastid-derived genes. JMC, NAS, and CJK built TGD. CdT, HFR, SCW, and RAB performed the RAPD analyses. EPH, EO, SLS, JAE, and MW examined genome structure.