• 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 the UCSC Known Genes annotations, the Gene Sorter, VisiGene, Genome Graphs, chaining and netting programs, the In Silico PCR tool, and the GigAssembler. 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. VisiGene, Genome Graphs, parasol, ENCODE submission pipeline.
• Hiram Clawson: Genome Browser engineering. New and updated organism browsers, wiggle tracks, genomeWiki, wikiTrack, mirror and licensing technical support, modENCODE.
• Melissa Cline: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE.
• Mark Diekhans: Technical engineering lead and PhD student. MGC project CCDS, Genome Browser GenBank data pipeline, Gencode.
• Tim Dreszer: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE, guinea pig browser.
• Pauline Fujita: Genome Browser QA, mailing list support.
• Rachel Harte: Genome Browser engineering. CCDS and MGC curation, Zebrafish browser.
• Angie Hinrichs: Genome Browser engineering. SNPs and variation data, insect, chicken and dog browsers, modENCODE, Table Browser, session management.
• Fan Hsu: Director of Proteomics. Cancer browser projects, GSID, Proteome Browser, Known Genes.
• Donna Karolchik: Genome Browser project and engineering management, documentation, web content, Genome Browser licensing, training/outreach coordinator.
• Robert Kuhn: Genome Browser QA manager, project outreach, mailing list support.
• Katrina Learned: Genome Browser QA, mailing list support.
• Larry Meyer: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE, UI, horse browser.
• Thomas Pringle: Technical advisor on Proteome Browser project, avid Genome Browser user, constant source of ideas for improving and expanding project functionality.
• Brian Raney: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE, zebra finch browser.
• Brooke Rhead: Genome Browser QA, mailing list support.
• Kate Rosenbloom: ENCODE DCC technical project manager and Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE DCC and pilot projects, multiz and conservation alignments, custom track manager.
• Kayla Smith: Genome Browser QA, mailing list support.
• Ann Zweig: Genome Browser QA Team Lead, mailing list support.

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

• Robert Baertsch: Graduate student - Synteny, pseudogenes, orthology; Genome Browser support.
• Steve Benz: Graduate student - Cancer genomics browser.
• Craig Lowe: Graduate student - Contribution of transposons to the evolution of the human genome.
• Jian Ma: Post-doctoral scholar - Reconstruction of chromosomal rearrangements and segmental duplications.
• Benedict Paten: Graduate student - ENCODE DAC, comparative genomics and evolutionary analysis.
• Krishna Roskin: Graduate student - Phylogenetic analysis, Genome Browser database support, early Table Browser support.
• Zack Sanborn: Graduate student - Cancer genomics browser.
• Bernard Suh: Graduate student - Reconstruction of evolutionary trees.
• Ting Wang: Post-doctoral scholar - ENCODE, epigenomics data, cancer genomics browser.
• Jing Zhu: Post-doctoral scholar - Cancer genomics browser.

Systems Administration Staff:

• Jorge Garcia: Systems administrator. Co-designer of the KiloKluster. Chief hardware bug finder. Web, mail, laptop and general systems support.
• Victoria Lin: Systems administrator.
• Erich Weiler: Systems administrator.

Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering (CBSE) Staff:

• David Haussler: CBSE Director, HHMI investigator, co-director of UCSC Genome Browser project.
• Ann Pace: CBSE Assistant Director. Grants, budget, space and other administrative support.
• Vege Clerisse: Executive Assistant.
• Katy Elliott: Administrative Manager.
• Rochelle Fuller: Administrative Specialist.
• Zia Isola: Associate Director for CBSE Diversity Programs.
• Susan Rose: CBSE Administrative Assistant/Receptionist.
• Branwyn Wagman: CBSE/QB3 Communications Coordinator, HR.

We gratefully acknowledge the help of former UCSC genome team members Gill Bejerano, Mathieu Blanchette, Trevor Bruen, Brenna Candelaria, Mike Chalup, Chad Chen, Ron Chao, Jenny Draper, Phoenix Eagleshadow, Terry Furey, Patrick Gavin, Jennifer Jackson, Scot Kennedy, Andy Kern, Nick Littlestone, Yontao Lu, Crystal Lynch, Chester Manuel, Jakob Pedersen, Mike Pheasant, Andy Pohl, Katie Pollard, Ruth Rabinowitz, Sanja Rogic, Matt Schwartz, Chuck Sugnet, Ali Sultan-Qurraie, Adam Siepel, Paul Tatarksy, Archana Thakkapallayil, Daryl Thomas, Aaron Tomb, Heather Trumbower, Sandra Walton, Ryan Weber, Wei Wu, Matt Xia, Chen-Hsiang Yeang, and Degui Zhi.