About the Authors

Paul D. Thomas

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Affiliation Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Valerie Wood

Affiliation Cambridge Systems Biology Centre and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Mungall

Affiliation Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Suzanna E. Lewis

Affiliation Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Judith A. Blake

Affiliation Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America

on behalf of the Gene Ontology Consortium

Competing Interests

PDT, VW and JAB are funded in part by grants to maintain model organism databases.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PDT VW. Performed the experiments: PDT VW CJM. Analyzed the data: PDT VW CJM SEL JAB. Wrote the paper: PDT VW SEL JAB.