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  UCSC Genome Browser Project Team
  UCSC Genome Browser Project Staff:
  • Jim Kent: Research Scientist, co-director of UCSC Genome Browser project. Design and implementation of the Genome Browser and the BLAT sequence search tool. Author of the GigAssembler, Gene Sorter, In Silico PCR, VisiGene, and chaining/netting programs. Implementation of many Genome Browser annotation tracks, including FPC contigs, assembly, gap, coverage, known genes, full mRNA, spliced ESTs, human ESTs, Genscan genes, non-human mRNA and EST, and mouse BLAT.
  • Galt Barber: Genome Browser engineering, Cow Browser, VisiGene.
  • Hiram Clawson: Genome Browser engineering, Worm Browser, Human Browser, Mouse Browser, Opossum Browser, "wiggle" track for quantitative analysis along chromosomes, mirror and licensing technical support.
  • Mark Diekhans: Graduate student, MGC project lead, common human gene set, and incremental updates of cDNA data.
  • Rachel Harte: Genome Browser engineering and QA, Zebrafish Browser, Tetraodon Browser.
  • Angie Hinrichs: Genome Browser engineering, Drosophila Browsers, A. gambiae Browser, Chicken Browser, Honey Bee Browser, Dog Browser, Table Browser.
  • Fan Hsu: Director of Proteomics, Genome Browser engineering, Proteome Browser, Mouse Browser, Known Genes tracks.
  • Jennifer Jackson: Genome Browser QA.
  • Donna Karolchik: Documentation, web content, Genome Browser licensing, mailing list support, training coordinator, misc. project management.
  • Robert Kuhn: Genome Browser QA manager, project outreach.
  • Andy Pohl: Genome Browser engineering, hgLiftOver.
  • Thomas Pringle: Technical advisor on Proteome Browser project, avid Genome Browser user, constant source of ideas for improving and expanding project functionality.
  • Kate Rosenbloom: Genome Browser engineering, Fugu Browser, Chimp Browser, NISC project, ENCODE project, multiz/humor alignments.
  • Kayla Smith: Genome Browser QA.
  • Heather Trumbower: Genome Browser engineering, Cow Browser.
  • Ann Zweig: Genome Browser QA.

Post-docs and Graduate Students (Browser-related support):

  • Gill Bejerano: Post-doctoral fellow - Genome Browser support, comparative genomics research.
  • Andy Kern: Post-doctoral fellow - Population genetics and human variation.
  • Jakob Pedersen: Post-doctoral fellow - Molecular evolution and RNA secondary structure.
  • Katie Pollard: Post-doctoral fellow - Chimp genome analysis.
  • Chen-Hsiang Yeang: Post-doctoral fellow - Co-evolution.
  • Robert Baertsch: Graduate student - Synteny, pseudogenes, orthology; Genome Browser support.
  • Craig Lowe: Graduate student - Contribution of transposons to the evolution of the human genome.
  • Yontao Lu: Graduate student - Help with genetic maps.
  • Brian Raney: Graduate student, Ciona Browser, Genome Browser engineering.
  • Krishna Roskin: Graduate student - Phylogenetic analysis, Genome Browser database support, early Table Browser support.
  • Adam Siepel: Graduate student - phylogenetic analysis, conservation tracks, and multi-species gene prediction.
  • Bernard Suh. Graduate student - Reconstruction of chromosomal rearrangements.
  • Daryl Thomas: Graduate student - SNP and haplotype tracks, management and alignments for ENCODE project.

Systems Administration Staff:

  • Jorge Garcia: Systems administrator. Co-designer of the KiloKluster. Chief hardware bug finder. Web, mail, laptop and general systems support.
  • Patrick Gavin: Systems administrator. Hardware, KiloKluster design, general systems support.
  • Paul Tatarsky: Systems administrator. Hardware, networking, security, mirror sites, general advice.

Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) Staff:

We gratefully acknowledge the help of former UCSC genome team members Mathieu Blanchette, Trevor Bruen, Mike Chalup, Chad Chen, Ron Chao, Jenny Draper, Terry Furey, Scot Kennedy, Nick Littlestone, Crystal Lynch, Sanja Rogic, Matt Schwartz, Chuck Sugnet, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Aaron Tomb, Ryan Weber, Wei Wu, Matt Xia, Degui Zhi.