• 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.
• 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.
• Larry Meyer: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE, UI, horse browser.
• Mike Pheasant: Genome Browser engineering. ENCODE, RNA tracks.
• Andy Pohl: Genome Browser engineering. Microarray data, LiftOver, ENCODE.
• Thomas Pringle: Technical advisor on Proteome Browser project, avid Genome Browser user, constant source of ideas for improving and expanding project functionality.
• 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, mailing list support.

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

• Andy Kern: Post-doctoral fellow - Population genetics and human variation.
• Robert Baertsch: Graduate student - Synteny, pseudogenes, orthology; Genome Browser support.
• Craig Lowe: Graduate student - Contribution of transposons to the evolution of the human genome.
• Brian Raney: Graduate student, Ciona Browser, Genome Browser engineering.
• Krishna Roskin: Graduate student - Phylogenetic analysis, Genome Browser database support, early Table Browser support.
• Bernard Suh. Graduate student - Reconstruction of chromosomal rearrangements.

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.
• Chester Manuel: 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.
• Katy Elliott: Administrative Manager.
• Vege Clerisse: Executive Assistant.
• Ruth Rabinowitz: Receptionist, administrative assistant.
• 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, Nick Littlestone, Yontao Lu, Crystal Lynch, Jakob Pedersen, Katie Pollard, 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.