About the Authors

Mark Yandell

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: myandell@genetics.utah.edu

Current address: Department of Human Genetics, Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Chris J Mungall

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Chris Smith

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Simon Prochnik

Current address: U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Joshua Kaminker

Current address: Department of Bioinformatics, Genentech, South San Francisco, California, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

George Hartzell

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Suzanna Lewis

Affiliation Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Gerald M Rubin

Affiliations Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States of America , Department of Genome Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

MY conceived and designed the experiments, contributed to and coordinated the analyses of the data, contributed analysis tools, and wrote the paper. CJM, CS, SP, JK, and GH contributed to the analyses of the data. CJM, CS, SP, JK, GH, and SL contributed analysis tools. GMR contributed to experimental design and writing the manuscript.