Genome BioInformatics Laboratory, Barcelona, Spain:

	Roderic Guigo (GENCODE Principal Investigator) France Denoeud Julien Lagarde Eduardo Eyras Jan-Jaap Wesselink Robert Castelo

University of Geneva, Switzerland:

	Stylianos Antonarakis Alexandre Reymond Catherine Ucla Carine Wyss Jacqueline Chrast Colette Rossier

European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK:

	Ewan Birney Damian Keefe

Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St Louis, USA:

Michael Brent Michael Stevens

Dept. of Mathematics, UC Berkeley, USA:

	Lior Pachter Bernd Sturmfels Nicolas Bray Marta Casanellas Sourav Chatterji Colin Dewey Mathias Drton Nicholas Eriksson Sagi Snir

Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK:

	Team 16: Population and Comparative Genomics:

	Manolis Dermitzakis

	Team 71: Informatics (Mainly HAVANA annotation group):

	Jennifer Ashurst Tim Hubbard Adam Frankish David Swarbreck James Gilbert