About the Authors

Leo Goodstadt

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: leo.goodstadt@anat.ox.ac.uk

Affiliation Medical Research Council Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Chris P Ponting

Affiliation Medical Research Council Functional Genetics Unit, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

LG conceived of, designed, and implemented PhyOP. CPP provided ideas and advice throughout the project and contributed to the genome analysis. LG and CPP wrote the paper together.