Letter to Editors(Signatures)
List of people (current as of Aug 27, 2008) who agreed to sign the Letter to Editors as discussed on the BioCurator Forum:
Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute; UniProtKB
Cecilia Arighi, Ph.D., Senior Protein Scientist; Protein Information Resource/UniProt
Michael Ashburner, Professor, Cambridge University; Gene Ontology Consortium, FlyBase
Amos Bairoch, Swiss-Prot Group Leader; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics,
Rama Balakrishnan, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Sally Bamford, Curator,COSMIC; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Alex Bateman, Senior Investigator, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute; Pfam, Rfam
Tanya Berardini, Ph.D., Lead Scientific Curator, Functional Genomics; The Arabidopsis Information Resource
Judy Blake, Associate Professor, The Jackson Laboratory; Mouse Genome Informatics, Gene Ontology Consortium
Lydie Bougueleret, Swiss-Prot Group; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
R. Andrew Cameron, Senior Research Associate, California Institute of Technology; SpBase
J. Michael Cherry, Associate Professor, Stanford University; Saccharomyces Genome Database, Gene Ontology Consortium
Rex Chisholm, Professor, Northwestern University; dictyBase Disease Ontology
Jeff Christiansen Ph.D., Senior Editor; EMAGE Gene Expression Database
Karen R. Christie, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Charlotte Cole, Curator, COSMIC; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Maria C. Costanzo, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database and Candida Genome Database
Lynn Crosby, Scientific Curator, FlyBase; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Alexander D. Diehl, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Mouse Genome Informatics
Emily Dimmer, Senior Scientific Curator, European Bioinformatics Institute; GOA database
Kara Dolinski, Ph.D., Director, Genome Databases Group; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University
Harold J. Drabkin, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Mouse Genome Informatics
Kate Dreher, Curator; TAIR / AraCyc / Plant Metabolic Network
Selina S. Dwight, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Stacia R. Engel, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Janan Eppig, Senior Staff Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory; Mouse Genome Informatics, Mouse Genome Database
Petra Fey, Scientific Curator, dictyBase; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Dianna Fisk, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
John S. Garavelli, Curator; RESID Database of Protein Modifications
Pascale Gaudet, Scientific Curator, dictyBase; Northwestern University, Chicago, IL (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
William Gelbart, Professor, Harvard University; FlyBase
Martin Golebiewski, EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
L. Sian Gramates, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Gary Grumbling, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Melissa Haendel, Scientific Curator, ZFIN
Marc S. Halfon, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, SUNY at Buffalo; PI, REDfly Database
Lisa Harper, Curator, MaizeGDB
Jodi E. Hirschman, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Jonathan Hodgkin, Professor, University of Oxford; WormBase
Eurie Hong, Ph.D., Head, Scientific Curation, Saccharomyces Genome Database
Jim Hu, Professor, Texas A&M University; EcoliHub
Zhi-Liang Hu, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Iowa State University; QTLdb
Eva Huala, The Arabadopsis Information Resource
Pankaj Jaiswal, Gramene Database
Renate Kania, EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
Cindy Krieger, Ph.D., Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Rob Kulathinal, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Carolyn J. Lawrence, Director, MaizeGDB
Suzanna Lewis, Senior Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Gene Ontology Consortium, modENCODE
Donghui Li, Ph.D., Carnegie Institution; The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
Michael S. Livstone, Ph.D. Senior Scientific Curator, Genome Databases Group Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics Princeton University
Timothy F Lowry Ph.D., Curator/Researcher, Rat Genome Database; Medical College of Wisconsin
Steven Marygold, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Beverley Matthews, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Carolyn J. Mattingly, Ph.D., Investigator; PI, Comparative Toxicogenomics Database
Peter McQuilton, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Gillian Millburn, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Lukas Mueller, SOL Genomics Network
Chris Mungall, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Rob Nash, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Saccharomyces Genome Database
Rebecca Nelson, Ph.D., Director of Outreach; Database of Interacting Proteins, UCLA
Rajni Nigam, Scientific Curator, Rat Genome Database
Rose Oughtred, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator, Genome Databases Group; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
David Osumi-Sutherland, Scientific Curator, Ontologist; FlyBase
Julie Park, Ph.D., Scientific Curator, Saccharomyces Genome Database
Helen Parkinson, Ph.D., ArrayExpress Production Coordinator; Microarray Informatics Team, EBI
Victoria Petri, Ph.D., Research Scientist; Rat Genome Database
James Reecy, Associate Professor, Iowa State University; Animal QTLdb
Sue Rhee, Staff Scientist, Carnegie Institution, Department of Plant Biology; The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
Lorna Richardson, EMAGE Editor; EMAGE Gene Expression Database (Member of the International Society for Biocuration Interim Board)
Margo Roark, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Lukasz Salwinski, Ph.D., Assistant Researcher, UCLA; Database of Interacting Proteins
Mary Schaeffer (Polacco), Ph.D., Geneticist/Curator; MaizeGDB
Michel Schneider, Senior Scientific Curator, Swiss-Prot; Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Mary Shimoyama, Program Manager; Rat Genome Database
Gavin Sherlock, Assistant Professor, Stanford University; Candida Genome Database
Marek Skrzypek, Ph.D., Senior Scientific Curator; Candida Genome Database, Saccharomyces Genome Database
Jennifer R. Smith, Scientific Curator; Rat Genome Database
Susan St. Pierre, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Raymund Stefancsik, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Paul Sternberg, Professor, California Institute of Technology; WormBase
Susan Tweedie, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Mike Tyers, Professor, University of Toronto & University of Edinburgh; BioGRID
Marzena Wal, Scientific Curator, UCLA; Database of Interacting Proteins
Barry Wanner, Professor, Purdue University; EcoliHub
Monte Westerfield, Professor, University of Oregon; ZFIN
Mark Williams, Scientific Curator, FlyBase
Ulrike Wittig, EML Research gGmbH; SABIO-Reaction Kinetics Database (SABIO-RK)
Valerie Wood, S. pombe Database Project Manager; Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Michal Zdzalik, Scientific Curator, UCLA/Jagiellonian University, Krakow; Database of Interacting Proteins