About the Authors

Anita Bandrowski

Affiliation University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Ryan Brinkman

Affiliation British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mathias Brochhausen

Affiliation University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States of America

Matthew H. Brush

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Bill Bug

† Deceased.

Affiliation Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Marcus C. Chibucos

Affiliation University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kevin Clancy

Affiliation Thermo Fisher Scientific, Carlsbad, California, United States of America

Mélanie Courtot

Affiliation Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Dirk Derom

Affiliation The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium

Michel Dumontier

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

Liju Fan

Affiliation Ontology Workshop, LLC, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America

Jennifer Fostel

Affiliation National Toxicology Program, NIEHS, National Institutes of Health, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America

Gilberto Fragoso

Affiliation Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Frank Gibson

Affiliation Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Melissa A. Haendel

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Yongqun He

Affiliation University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Mervi Heiskanen

Affiliation National Cancer Institute, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Tina Hernandez-Boussard

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

Mark Jensen

Affiliation University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Yu Lin

Affiliation University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Allyson L. Lister

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Phillip Lord

Affiliation Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

James Malone

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory- European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Elisabetta Manduchi

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Monnie McGee

Affiliation Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Norman Morrison

Affiliation The University of Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

James A. Overton

Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Helen Parkinson

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory- European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Bjoern Peters

bpeters@lji.org

Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Philippe Rocca-Serra

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Alan Ruttenberg

Affiliation University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Susanna-Assunta Sansone

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

Richard H. Scheuermann

Affiliation J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Daniel Schober

Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Barry Smith

Affiliation University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Larisa N. Soldatova

Affiliation Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Christian J. Stoeckert Jr.

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Chris F. Taylor

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory- European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Carlo Torniai

Affiliation Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Jessica A. Turner

Affiliation Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Randi Vita

Affiliation La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Patricia L. Whetzel

Affiliation University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America

Jie Zheng

Affiliation University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB RB MB MHB BB MCC KC MC DD MD LF JF GF FG AGB MAH YH MH THB MJ YL ALL PL JM EM MM NM JAO HP BP PRS AR SAS RHS DS BS LNS CJS CFT CT JAT RV PLW JZ. Wrote the paper: AB RB MB MHB BB MCC KC MC DD MD LF JF GF FG AGB MAH YH MH THB MJ YL ALL PL JM EM MM NM JAO HP BP PRS AR SAS RHS DS BS LNS CJS CFT CT JAT RV PLW JZ. Ontology development: AB RB MB MHB BB MCC KC MC DD MD LF JF GF FG AGB MAH YH MH THB MJ YL ALL PL JM EM MM NM JAO HP BP PRS AR SAS RHS DS BS LNS CJS CFT CT JAT RV PLW JZ.