Letter to Editors(Signatures)

List of people (alphabetical order; current as of Sept. 4, 2008) who agreed to sign the Letter to Editors as discussed on the BioCurator Forum.

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1. Igor Antoschechkin, Caltech; WormBase
2. Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute; UniProtKB
3. Cecilia Arighi, Ph.D., Senior Protein Scientist, Protein Information Resource/UniProt
4. Martha B. Arnaud, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Candida Genome Database
5. Michael Ashburner, Professor, Cambridge University; Gene Ontology Consortium, FlyBase
6. Amos Bairoch, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Swiss-Prot Group Leader
7. Rama Balakrishnan, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
8. Sally Bamford, Curator, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; COSMIC
9. Alex Bateman, Senior Investigator, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Pfam, Rfam
10. Leyla Bayraktaroglu, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
11. Tanya Berardini, Ph.D, Lead Scientific Curator, Functional Genomics, The Arabidopsis Information Resource
12. Tamberlyn Bieri, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center; WormBase
13. Ewan Birney, Ph.D., European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK; Co-PI, Reactome
14. Judith A. Blake, Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory; Gene Ontology Consortium, Mouse Genome Informatics
15. Darin Blasiar, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center; WormBase
16. Bernard de Bono, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
17. Lydie Bougueleret, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Swiss-Prot Group (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
18. Yvonne Bradford, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
19. Elspeth Bruford, Ph.D., Project-Coordinator, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Bioinformatics Institute
20. Gully APC Burns, Information Sciences Institute
21. R. Andrew Cameron, Senior Research Associate, California Institute of Technology; SpBase
22. Mike Caudy, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
23. Juancarlos Chan, Caltech; WormBase
24. Wen Chen, Caltech; WormBase
25. J. Michael Cherry, Associate Professor, Stanford University; Saccharomyces Genome Database, Gene Ontology Consortium
26. Rex Chisholm, Professor, Northwestern University; dictyBase, Disease Ontology
27. Jeff Christiansen Ph.D., Senior Editor, EMAGE Gene Expression Database
28. Karen R. Christie, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
29. Charlotte Cole, Curator, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; COSMIC
30. Maria C. Costanzo, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Candida Genome Database, Saccharomyces Genome Database
31. David Croft, European Bioinformatics Institute, Reactome
32. Lynn Crosby, Scientific Curator, Harvard University; FlyBase
33. Norie de la Cruz, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; WormBase
34. Allan Peter Davis, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
35. Paul Davis, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
36. Peter D'Eustachio, New York University; Co-PI, Editor-in-Chief, Reactome
37. Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Mouse Genome Informatics
38. Emily Dimmer, Senior Scientific Curator, European Bioinformatics Institute; GOA database
39. Mary E. Dolan, Ph.D., Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory
40. Kara Dolinski, Ph.D., Director, Genome Databases Group, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
41. Harold J. Drabkin, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Mouse Genome Informatics
42. Kate Dreher, Curator, The Arabidopsis Information Resource / AraCyc / Plant Metabolic Network
43. Richard Durbin, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
44. Selina S. Dwight, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
45. Stacia R. Engel, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
46. Janan Eppig, Professor, The Jackson Laboratory; Mouse Genome Informatics, Mouse Genome Database
47. David Fashena, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
48. Jolene Fernandes, Caltech; WormBase
49. Petra Fey, Scientific Curator, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; dictyBase
50. Dianna Fisk, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
51. Ken Frazer, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
52. Phani Garapati, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
53. John S. Garavelli, Curator, RESID Database of Protein Modifications
54. Pascale Gaudet, Scientific Curator, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL; dictyBase (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
55. William Gelbart, Professor, Harvard University; FlyBase
56. Marc Gillespie, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
57. Martin Golebiewski,EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
58. Gopal Gopinathrao, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
59. Susan Gordon, Ph.D., Gene Nomenclature Advisor, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Bioinformatics Institute
60. Michelle Gwinn Giglio, Assistant Professor, Institute for Genome Sciences,University of Maryland School of Medicine; Gene Ontology Consortium
61. L. Sian Gramates, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
62. Gary Grumbling, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
63. Michael Han, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
64. Melissa Haendel, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
65. Marc S. Halfon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, SUNY at Buffalo; PI, REDfly Database
66. Lisa Harper, Curator, MaizeGDB
67. Todd Harris, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; WormBase
68. Henning Hermjakob, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
69. Jodi E. Hirschman, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
70. Jonathan Hodgkin, Professor, University of Oxford; WormBase
71. Andreas Hoelzlwimmer, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
72. Eurie Hong, Ph.D., Head, Scientific Curation, Saccharomyces Genome Database
73. Doug Howe, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
74. Jim Hu, Professor, Texas A&M University; EcoliHub
75. Zhi-Liang Hu, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Iowa State University; QTLdb
76. Eva Huala, Ph.D, Director, The Arabidopsis Information Resource
77. Pankaj Jaiswal, Gramene Database
78. Bijay Jassal, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
79. Alexander Kanapin, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
80. Renate Kania, EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
81. Daisuke Kihara, Assistant Professor, Purdue University, EcoliHub
82. Ranjana Kishore, Caltech; WormBase
83. Cindy Krieger, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
84. Rob Kulathinal, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
85. Lydie Lane, Senior Scientific Curator, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Swiss-Prot
86. Stan Laulederkind, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Medical College of Wisconsin; Rat Genome Database
87. Carolyn J. Lawrence, Director, MaizeGDB
88. Raymond Lee, Caltech; WormBase
89. Suzanna Lewis, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Gene Ontology Consortium, modENCODE
90. Donghui Li, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, The Arabidopsis Information Resource
91. Michael S. Livstone, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Genome Databases Group, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
92. Todd Lowe, UC Santa Cruz; Archaeal Genome Database
93. Timothy F. Lowry, Ph.D., Curator/Researcher, Medical College of Wisconsin; Rat Genome Database
94. Ramana Madupu, curator, prokaryotic genome databases and Characterized Protein Database; J Craig Venter Institute
95. Michele Magrane, European Bioinformatics Institute; UniProtKB
96. Shahana Mahajan, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
97. Lois J. Maltais, Sr. Scientific Curator, The Jackson Laboratory, Member of the International Committee on Standardized Genetic Nomenclature for Mice and the Mouse Genomic Nomenclature Committee, Mouse Genome Informatics
98. Steven Marygold, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
99. Beverley Matthews, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
100. Lisa Matthews, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
101. Carolyn J. Mattingly, Ph.D., Investigator; PI, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
102. Bruce May, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
103. Peter McQuilton, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
104. Gillian Millburn, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
105. Lukas Mueller, SOL Genomics Network
106. Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
107. Cynthia G. Murphy, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
108. Rob Nash, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
109. Rebecca Nelson, Ph.D., Director of Outreach, Database of Interacting Proteins
110. Rajni Nigam, Scientific Curator, Rat Genome Database
111. Claire O'Donovan, UniProt
112. Rose Oughtred, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Genome Databases Group, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
113. David Osumi-Sutherland, Scientific Curator, Ontologist; FlyBase
114. Phil Ozersky, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center; WormBase
115. Julie Park, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
116. Helen Parkinson, Ph.D., ArrayExpress Production Coordinator, Microarray Informatics Team, EBI
117. Andrei Petcherski, Caltech; WormBase
118. Victoria Petri, Ph.D., Research Scientist; Rat Genome Database
119. Sylvain Poux, Senior Scientific Curator, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Swiss-Prot
120. Sridhar Ramachandran, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
121. James Reecy, Associate Professor, Iowa State University; Animal QTLdb
122. Sue Rhee, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology
123. Lorna Richardson, EMAGE Editor, EMAGE Gene Expression Database (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
124. Margo Roark, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
125. Anthony Rogers, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
126. Ali Roumani, Researcher Scholar, Purdue University, EcoliHub
127. Barbara Ruef, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
128. Lukasz Salwinski, Ph.D., Assistant Researcher, UCLA; Database of Interacting Proteins
129. Cynthia A. Saraceni-Richards, Scientific Curator, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
130. Mary Schaeffer (Polacco), Ph.D., Geneticist/Curator, MaizeGDB
131. Esther Schmidt, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
132. Michel Schneider, Senior Scientific Curator, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics; Swiss-Prot
133. Gary Schindleman, Caltech; WormBase
134. Erich Schwarz, Caltech; WormBase
135. Ruth Seal, Ph.D., Gene Nomenclature Advisor, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Bioinformatics Institute
136. Mary Shimoyama, Program Manager, Rat Genome Database
137. Gavin Sherlock, Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Candida Genome Database
138. Amy Singer, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
139. Marek Skrzypek, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Candida Genome Database, Saccharomyces Genome Database
140. Jennifer R. Smith, Scientific Curator, Rat Genome Database
141. John Spieth, Washington University Genome Sequencing Center; WormBase
142. Susan St. Pierre, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
143. Raymund Stefancsik, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
144. Lincoln Stein, M.D., Ph.D., Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY and Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada; WormBase; PI, Reactome
145. Paul Sternberg, Professor, California Institute of Technology; WormBase
146. David Swarbreck, Ph.D, Lead Scientific Curator, The Arabidopsis Information Resource
147. Mary Ann Tuli, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
148. Susan Tweedie, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
149. Mike Tyers, Professor, University of Toronto & University of Edinburgh; BioGRID
150. Brett Tyler, Professor, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute; PAMGO
151. Kimberly Van Auken, Caltech; WormBase
152. Imre Vastrik, European Bioinformatics Institute; Reactome
153. Marzena Wal, Scientific Curator, UCLA; Database of Interacting Proteins
154. Ceri Van Slyke, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
155. Xioadong Wang, Caltech; WormBase
156. Barry L. Wanner, Professor, Purdue University; EcoliHub
157. Monte Westerfield, Professor, University of Oregon; ZFIN
158. Gary Williams, Sanger Wellcome Trust Institute; WormBase
159. Mark Williams, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
160. Ulrike Wittig, EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
161. Valerie Wood, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; S. pombe Database Project Manager
162. Matt Wright, Ph.D., Senior Gene Nomenclature Advisor, HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC), European Bioinformatics Institute
163. Guanming Wu, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY; Reactome
164. Karen Yook,Caltech; WormBase
165. Michal Zdzalik, Scientific Curator, UCLA/Jagiellonian University, Krakow; Database of Interacting Proteins