About the Authors

Deanna M. Church

church@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Valerie A. Schneider

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Tina Graves

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

Katherine Auger

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Fiona Cunningham

Affiliation The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nathan Bouk

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Hsiu-Chuan Chen

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Richa Agarwala

Affiliation National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

William M. McLaren

Affiliation The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Graham R.S. Ritchie

Affiliation The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Derek Albracht

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

Milinn Kremitzki

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

Susan Rock

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

Holland Kotkiewicz

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

Colin Kremitzki

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

Aye Wollam

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

Lee Trani

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

Lucinda Fulton

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

Robert Fulton

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

Lucy Matthews

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Siobhan Whitehead

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Will Chow

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

James Torrance

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Matthew Dunn

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Glenn Harden

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Glen Threadgold

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Jonathan Wood

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Joanna Collins

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul Heath

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Guy Griffiths

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Sarah Pelan

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Darren Grafham

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Evan E. Eichler

Affiliations Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

George Weinstock

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

Elaine R. Mardis

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

Richard K. Wilson

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

Kerstin Howe

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paul Flicek

Affiliation The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Tim Hubbard

Affiliation The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Paul Flicek is married to the deputy editor of PLoS Medicine, Melissa Norton. Evan Eichler is on the board of Pacific Biosciences.