About the Authors

Yatish Turakhia

Contributed equally to this work with: Yatish Turakhia, Nicola De Maio, Bryan Thornlow

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Nicola De Maio

Contributed equally to this work with: Yatish Turakhia, Nicola De Maio, Bryan Thornlow

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Bryan Thornlow

Contributed equally to this work with: Yatish Turakhia, Nicola De Maio, Bryan Thornlow

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Landen Gozashti

Roles Investigation, Software

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Robert Lanfear

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia

Conor R. Walker

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Angie S. Hinrichs

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Jason D. Fernandes

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Rui Borges

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institut für Populationsgenetik, Vetmeduni Vienna, Wien, Austria

Greg Slodkowicz

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Lukas Weilguny

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

David Haussler

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

haussler@ucsc.edu (DH); goldman@ebi.ac.uk (NG); rucorbet@ucsc.edu (RC-D)

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Nick Goldman

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

haussler@ucsc.edu (DH); goldman@ebi.ac.uk (NG); rucorbet@ucsc.edu (RC-D)

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Russell Corbett-Detig

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

haussler@ucsc.edu (DH); goldman@ebi.ac.uk (NG); rucorbet@ucsc.edu (RC-D)

Affiliations Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America, Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Conflict of interest statement. A.S.H. and D.H. receive royalties from the sale of UCSC Genome Browser source code, LiftOver, GBiB, and GBiC licenses to commercial entities. RL works as an advisor to GISAID.