Open Letter Signatures

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Richard Roberts

Chief Scientific Officer
(New England Biolabs)

Naveed Aziz

Vice President Research & Innovation
(Genome Canada)

Professor Dame Janet Thornton

Director Emeritus
(EMBL-EBI)

Dr. Saurabh Raghuvanshi

Professor
(Department of Plant Molecular Biology, University of Delhi South Campus, India)

Kanhaiya Lal Sadhwani

Owner
(String)

Kanhaiya Lal Sadhwani

Owner
(Kanhaiya Sadhwani Company Limited)

Alexander

Ass Proff Dr/ Philosophi
(Moscow State University Applid Biotechnology)

Kanhaiya Lal Sadhwani

Owner
(Sadhwani enterprises)

YANG Yuan YANG

postgraduate
(College of Biodiversity Conservation and Utilisation, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming Yunnan 650224, China)

Urmas Kõljalg

Professor
(University of Tartu)

Prof. Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer

Professor in Botany
(University Kassel, Germany)

Takeshi Obayashi

Professor
(Tohoku University)

Luis Nassar

UCSC Genome Browser Lead
(University of California Santa Cruz)

Anton Schäffner

Scientist, Emeritus
(Helmholtz Zentrum München)

Maike Lorenz

Scientist, Curator of Biological Ressource Center
(Goettingen University)

Alfons Weig

Privatdozent – Core Facility Head
(University of Bayreuth)

Sigrid Liede-Schumann

Professor emeritus
(University of Bayreuth)

Lena Frenzke

Research Assistant
(TU Dresden)

Bernd Weisshaar

Chair
(University of Bielefeld)

Susanne Isabel Schmidt

Scientist
(UFZ)

Bernard Lepetit

Professor
(University of Rostock)

Erdmuthe Farthofer

Private
(Private)

Eckhard Pohl

Teacher
(German Gymnasium)

Manfred Schartl

Professor
(Universität Würzburg)

Chris Somerville

Emeritus Professor
(University of California Berkeley)

Renato Nanni

Science teacher
(Gymnasium Kirchenfeld, pre-university school)

Ruth Brennan

Head of Strategic Relationships Scientific Operations
(Sanger)

Josephine Bageritz

PI
(Heidelberg University)

Gregor Bucher

Head of department
(Georg-August-Universität)

Dieter Burkhard

Teacher (Biology, ICT)
(Kantonsschule Heerbrugg)

Darja Deobald

Group leader
(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)

Alise Jany Ponsero

Bioinformatician
(Quadram Institute)

Tiago Lubiana

Alumni
(University of São Paulo)

Mary Ann Tuli

Senior Data Editor
(GigaScience Press)

Michael Preuß

Retired biology teacher
(Private)

Fabio Maschi

Vice President of Software & AI
(iGEM Foundation)

Dr. Norbert Luschka

private researcher
(private researcher)

Clotilde Teiling

MM
(IDT)

Bonnie Hurwitz

Director, Bioinformatics Research Center
(North Carolina State University)

Tim Van Den Bossche

Postdoctoral Researcher
(Ghent University)

Carin Wenzlokat

Ehrenamtliche Mitarbeiterin
(Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)

Yin Hoon Chew

Assistant Professor
(University of Birmingham)

Toby Hodges

Director of Curriculum
(The Carpentries)

James Gilbert

Data Scientist
(Ucl)

Tomás Di Domenico

Researcher
(Spanish National Cancer Research Centre)

Daniel J Rigden

Professor of Bioinformatics
(University of Liverpool)

Stefano

PHD student
(University of Copenhagen)

Ulrike Löber

Postdoc
(Max-Delbrueck Centre)

Graziano Pesole

Professor, Head of the Italian Node of ELIXIR
(University of Bari and Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

Till Birkner

Doctoral student
(Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek

Co-founder
(Harvard Personal Genome Project)

Ana Victoria Conesa Cegarra

Research Professor
(CSIC-I2SysBio)

Hermann Schmidt

CEO
(DNA-Cloning-Service e. K.)

Jake Lever

Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
(University of Glasgow)

Claudia Pommerenke

Senior Researcher
(Leibniz-Institut DSMZ)

Joseph Hughes

Senior bioinformatician
(Centre for Virus Research)

Asiyah Yu Lin

Founder
(OntoData Researh and Solutions)

Florenci Serras

Professor
(Universitat de Barcelona)

Solmaz khosravi

Postdoc
(Halle University)

Ricardo F.H. Giehl

PI
(Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research)

Karin Römisch

Professor of Microbiology
(Saarland University, Faculty of Natural Sciences)

Christian Wegener

Professor
(Neurobiology and Genetics, Biocenter, JMU Würzburg)

Stephan Weise

PI
(IPK)

Simone Winter

Head of IPK Library
(Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, IPK)

Christian Hertig

Researcher
(Leibniz-IPK, Gatersleben)

Ingo Schubert

senior guest researcher
(IPK Gatersleben)

Manuela Nagel

Head of Cryo and Stress Biology Group
(IPK)

Andreas Houben

PI
(IPK)

Michael Maguire

Biomarkers Lead
(GSK)

Alice Hughes

Professor
(University of Melbourne)

Luca Finazzo

Master Student
(Private)

Johann Liebeton

Business Developmend Lead
(Biotech startup / BioHalo ApS)

Birgit Meldal

Curator
(Private)

Tim Hirsch

Former Deputy Director, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
(Tim Hirsch Consulting)

Colbie Reed

Postdoctoral Fellow
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

Patrick Ruch

Group leader
(HESSO – HEG Geneve & SIB)

ANAMIKA KOTHARI

Programmer
(SRI International)

Melanie Vollmar

postdoctoral fellow
(EMBL-EBI)

Prof. Dr. Markus Engstler

President
(German Life Sciences Association (VBIO))

Kyle Morris

EMDB Team Leader
(EMDB (EMBL-EBI))

Dr. Ekkehard Geßner

Mykologische Diagnostik
(Pensionär)

Alois Palmetshofer

Chair
(German Conference of the Faculties of Biology)

Kienzle-Pfeilsticker

private
(private)

Petra Hönig

privat
(privat)

Prof. Dr. Reimer Stick

Professor
(Universität Bremen)

Hsin-Yu Chang

Bio curator
(Rothamsted Research)

Leonie Johann

Postdoc
(Nord University)

Peter Gallant

Associate Professor
(University Wuerzburg)

Thorsten Schnurbusch

Prof.
(IPK Gatersleben)

Peter McQuilton

Data Governance
(GSK)

Janina Lang

member
(VBIO)

Dr. Elisabeth Göttert

Retired
(Praxis für Humangenetik Homburg)

Lena Engelmann

PhD student
(Universität Rostock)

Mirka Uhlirova

Professor
(University of Cologne)

Tina Heger

Professor
(Technische Universtität München)

Daniela Panakova

Professor
(UKSH)

Gabi Krczal

President
(Society for Plant Biotechnology)

Albert Widemann

Science teacher – retired
(civil servant (Freistaat Bayern) – retired)

Prof. Dr. Marcus Schrenk

Professor
(PH Ludwigsburg)

Dr. Regina Ohmer

Biologist
(privat)

Andreas Haller

Research Scientist
(Pharmaceutical company)

Martin Demlehner

Director Sales Africa
(B. Braun Melsungen AG)

Krisztina Kollath-Leiß

lecturer
(CAU zu Kiel)

Elisabeth Weiss

Professor
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Amanda Wiesenthal

researcher
(University of Rostock)

Genji Kurisu

Professor
(The University of Osaka)

PD Dr. Klaus Neuhaus

Senior researcher
(Technische Universität München, ZIEL Institute for Food & Health, Core Facility Microbiome)

Judith Fronczek-Poncelet

Member
(VBio)

Ludwig Eichinger

PI
(Universität zu Köln)

Dr. Markus Hartung

Teacher
(HBBK-Marl)

Stefan Schulze

Assistant Professor
(Rochester Institute of Technology)

Ulrich Kull

Professor of Biology, retired
(University Stuttgart)

Roland Lill

Professor
(Philipps-Universität Marburg Germany)

Mario Strasset

Member
(VBIO)

Felicitas Pfeifer

Professor
(TU Darmstadt)

Peter B. Becker

Department Head
(LMU University of Munich)

Miriam Vogt

Educational Supervisor
(Heidelberg University)

Marie Alavi

Research associate
(Kiel University)

Jens Mayer

Group Leader
(University of Saarland)

Erik Eppinger

Scientist
(Institute of Microbiology)

Noura Adams

Abiturientin – Abitur 2025
(Max-Born-Gymnasium)

Claudia Garrido

Owner
(BeeSafe)

Ann Kathrin Huylmans

Group Leader
(Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Julia Hauenstein

Data Curation Expert
(Leibniz Institut DSMZ)

Julia Koblitz

Group Leader Data Integration
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

Markus Krummenacker

BIOINFORMATICS SCIENTIST
(SRI)

Antje Jäde

Curator
(BRENDA – DSMZ)

Eleni Tzampatzopoulou

Impact Manager
(EMBL-EBI)

Mathieu Rouard

Senior Scientist
(Alliance Bioveristy and CIAT / CGIAR)

Suzanne Paley

Bioinformatics Scientist
(SRI International)

Ron Caspi

Curator
(SRI International/Koonkie)

Sreenath K V

Student
(Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies)

Christos A Ouzounis

Professor of Bioinformatics
(Aristotle University of Thessalonica)

Sudakshina Ganguly

Scientific Database Curator
(EMBL EBI)

Santhi Ramachandran

Curator
(EMBL-EBI)

David Yuan

Project Lead
(ENA)

Mathias Krull

Bioinformatician
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

Alexander Rakowski

PhD student
(Hasso Plattner Institute)

Michael Rosbash

Professor
(Brandeis University/HHMI)

andrea ganna

associate professor
(university of helsinki)

Robert Mohney

Head of Clinical Biomarker Services (previously)
(unemployed)

Yue Ji

Bioinformatician
(European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

Hans-Rudolf Hotz

Bioinformatician
(Friedrich Miescher Institute)

Fiona Hagenbeek

Postdoctoral researcher
(Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), HiLIFE, University of Helsinki)

Aoife McMahon

Project Lead
(European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

Brooke Wolford

Researcher
(NTNU)

Mate Palfy

Open Science Lead
(Welcome Sanger Institute)

Susan Wopat

Postdoc
(UC Santa Barbara)

Nithu Sara John

Scientific Curator
(EMBL-EBI)

Kimking

Private
(Acme)

Noel O’Boyle

Team Leader
(EMBL-EBI)

Christine Orengo

Professor of Bioinformatics
(University College London, Professor in Bioinformatics)

Dr. Ananth Prakash

Senior Data Analayst
(The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

Julien Wollbrett

software developper
(SIB)

Harald Detering

Postdoctoral Researcher
(Université de Lausanne)

Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Professor
(University of Lausanne)

Sébastien Moretti

Senior Bioinformatician
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Shengbo Wang

Bioinformatician
(EMBL-EBI)

Tom Finn

Sector Innovation Manager
(Genome Alberta)

Elisabetta Giuffra

senior scientist
(INRAE)

Sascha Ott

Professor
(University of Warwick)

Dangles

Director
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Adam Marín Loría

Student
(Nacional University of Costa Rica)

Joseph Kwashie Senyo

Executive Director
(Community And Family Aid Foundation-Ghana)

Lisa Buchauer

Principal Investigator
(Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

MAKALANI MWALE

discovering
(Researcher)

Nick Lynch

Data Lead
(Curlew Research)

Lance Legel

CEO
(Ecodash.ai)

Roderic Guigo Serra

Professor
(Center for Genomic Regulation, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

Abhinav Singh

Research Scholar
(Amity University, Noida IN)

David Gloriam

Professor
(University of Copenhagen)

Rein Aasland

Professor
(University of Oslo)

Julio Collado-Vides

Head of the Program of Computational Genomics
(Center for Genomic Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

Yasmin Alam-Faruque

Associate Director Biocuration
(Pharmaceutical)

Karyn Mégy

Clinical Informatics Scientist
(Pharmaceutical company)

Dr. Kerstin Maria Janisch

Scientist
(Independent)

Daniel Felipe Victoria Muñoz

PhD. Student
(University of Münster)

Marcela K Tello-Ruiz

Computational Science Manager
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Bas E. Dutilh

Professor of Viral Ecology
(Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena)

Sushma Nagaraja Grellscheid

Head of Node, ELIXIR Norway
(UiB)

Korbinian Bøsl

Data Management Coordinator
(University of Bergen/ELIXIR Norway)

Pedro Madrigal

Senior Bioinformatician, Functional Genomics
(EMBL-EBI)

Jennifer Harrow

Director Phenomics/ Biocurator
(Cambridge)

Peter D Karp

PI
(SRI International)

Marnix Medema

Professor
(Wageningen University & Research)

Igor Jurisica

Senior Scientist and Professor
(Schroeder Arthritis Institute and Krembil Research Institute, UHN)

Noriko Cassman

Postdoctoral researcher
(Friedrich Schiller University)

Maria Anisimova

Professor
(Zurich University of Applied Science)

Grace Paul

PhD Student
(University of Exeter)

Theresa Wacker

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(University of Exeter)

Maria Anisimova

Professor
(Zurich University of Applied Science)

Katja Baerenfaller

Group leader
(SIAF, University of Zurich, Swiss Insitute of Bioinformatics)

Maximiliano M Maronna

Professor
(IO-FURG)

Esther Camilo dos Reis

Researcher
(Unifesp)

florence mehl

senios computational biologist
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Wei-Chung Cheng

PROFESSOR
(China Medical University)

Geoff Winsor

Lead database developer, Pseudomonas Genome Database
(Simon Fraser University)

Jian YANG

PI
(National Institute of Pathogen Biology, CAMS&PUMC)

欧阳广璐

学生
(安徽农业大学农学院)

Torsten Schwede

Professor
(University of Basel & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Cecilia Arighi

Instructor
(University of Delaware)

Peter D Karp

Director, Bioinformatics Research Group
(SRI International)

Boris Pfander

Professor
(TU Dortmund University)

Weiwen Wang

Curator
(China National GeneBank)

Max Haeussler

PI
(UCSC Genomics Institute)

Masanori Arita

Head of DDBJ
(National Institute of Genetics)

K-C. Moon

AHS
(U.M.A.)

Paul Magwene

Professor
(Duke University)

Livia Soro

PhD Candidate
(Imperial College London)

MICHAEL MCMURRAY

Associate Professor
(University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus)

Lis Albert

PhD Candidate
(Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center)

Anna

PhD student
(University Heidelberg)

Oliver Kerscher

Professor
(William & Mary)

Chris Nelson

PI
(UVic)

Magali Solares

Research
(UMSA)

Miguel Costa Coelho

Investment Senior Associate
(Hevolution)

David E Levin

PI/Professor and Chair
(Boston University)

HIDEMASA BONO

Professor
(Hiroshima University)

Kate Jiang

Graduate student
(University of Toronto)

Achille Zappa

Lecturer
(SOKA University – GaLSIC – Engineering and Science)

Nora Vögtle

Professor
(Heidelberg University)

Chris Meisinger

Speaker
(Collaborative Research Centre CRC1381, University of Freiburg)

Sebastian Schuck

Professor
(Heidelberg University)

Maria C Costanzo

Biocurator
(Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard)

Johan Thevelein

Managing Director
(NovelYeast)

Jurg Bahler

Prof
(UCL)

Anita Hopper

Professor
(Ohio State University)

Carly Kerr

Research Technologist
(Cleveland Clinic Foundation)

Dubar Elsa

Communications & Events Manager
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Deborah Siegele

Associate Professor in Biology
(Texas A&M University)

José Ribamar Ferreira-Junior

Principal Investigator
(University of Sao Paulo)

Pedro San-Segundo

PI
(IBFG (CSIC-USAL))

Mark Schmitt

Professor, Dean of Graduate Studies
(SUNY Upstate Medical University)

Chris Todd Hittinger

Professor
(University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Dr. Alexander Alexandrov

Maitre Assistant
(University of Geneva)

Matthias Mayer

Associate Professor
(Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany)

Joris Winderickx

Professor
(KU Leuven)

Pinson benoit

Senior scientist
(CNRS)

Johannes Herrmann

Professor
(University Kaiserslautern)

SIMONETTA PIATTI

Principal investigator
(CNRS/CRBM (Centrde de Recherche in Biologie Cellulaire de Montpellier))

Benedikt Westermann

Professor
(University of Bayreuth)

Per O. Ljungdahl

Professor, Director, SciLifeLab Campus Solna
(Stockholm University, SciLifeLab)

Pinson benoit

Senior scientist
(CNRS)

Kariona Grabinska

Research Scientist
(Yale University)

Christian Renicke

Staff Scientist
(Stanford University – School of Medicine)

Nikolaus Pfanner

Professor and Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
(University of Freiburg)

Daniel Gottschling

Distinguished principal investigator
(Calico Life Sciences LLC)

Karine Dubrana

Laboratory head
(CEA/INSERM)

Karen Yook

Senior Curator/Managing Editor
(WormBase/microPublication Biology)

Shayan Jamalimehr

Undergraduate student
(University of Esfehan)

Gabriel Valencia Sandu

Student
(University of Glasgow)

Rob Nash

Senior Biocurator
(Stanford University)

Chris Fields

Director – HPCBio
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Dr Nivedita Yadav

Data Curator
(IBDC India)

Christina James-Zorn

Scientific Biocurator
(Xenbase)

Karen Mruk

PI
(East Carolina University)

Evangelia Tsermpini

Postdoctoral Research
(Dalhousie University)

Lisa Jeske

Bioinformatician
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

Ananthakrishna Tantry

PhD student
(SRM Institute of Science and Technology)

Joshua Kelley

Associate Professor
(University of Maine)

Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh

Staff Scientist
(National Microbiome Data Collaborative/Berkeley Lab)

Niels Raes

NLBIF node manager
(Naturalis Biodiversity Center)

Juan Antonio Vizcaino

Team Leader
(European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

BF Francis Ouellette

Consultant
(Retired)

Anders Bergström

Lecturer
(University of East Anglia)

Kristian Axelsen

Senior Biocurator
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Catherine Clarke

Professor
(University of California – Los Angeles)

Suzi Aleksander

Curator
(Stanford University)

Bingwen Lu

Computational Biologist
(Vividion Therapeutics)

Pascale Lesage

Research Director
(Laboratoire Pathologie et Virologie Moléculaire, Institut Universitaire d'Hématologie)

Tom Ouellette

PhD student
(University of Toronto)

Jan Majta

Delivery manager
(Ardigen)

Nic Tapon

Group Leader
(The Francis Crick Institute)

Tyler A. Elliott

Research Associate
(University of Guelph)

Nathaniel Smith

Graduate Student
(Cornell University)

Sierra Moxon

Staff Software Engineer
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL))

Daniela Raciti

Curator
(California Institute of Technology)

William Hogan

Professor
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

Michelle Arbeitman

Professor
(Florida State University)

Lawrence Hunter, Ph.D.

Professor
(University of Chicago)

Jennifer Stiens

Fellow
(UCL)

Marco Brandizi

Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
(Rothamsted Research)

Francois Sabot

Senior Scientist
(IRD)

Andy Yates

Team Leader
(EMBL-EBI)

Raymond Lee

Staff scientist
(California Institute of Technology)

shachar sherman

postdoc
(Harvard (SCRB))

Fabio Boniolo

Postdoctoral Fellow
(Dana Farber Cancer Institute – Harvard Medical School)

German Bonilla Rosso

Researcher
(Agroscope)

Guillaume Bourque

Professor
(McGill University)

Benoit Ballester

Researcher in Bioinformatics, ReMap ressource PI
(INSERM TAGC)

Sarah Djebali

Researcher
(INSERM)

Scott Cain

Research Professor
(Penn State)

Amy Sater

Professor
(Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Houston)

Deborah A. Siegele

Associate Professor of Biology
(Texas A&M University – College Station)

Joerg Grosshans

Professor
(Phillips University)

Mark Peifer

Professor of Biology
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

David Raible

Professor
(University of Washington)

Deanna Church

Independent consultant
()

Anne Carpenter

Institute Scientist
(Broad Institute)

Kathleen Millen

Professor
(University of Washington)

Kaur Alasoo

Associate Professor
(University of Tartu)

James Bonfield

Principal Software Engineer
(Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Christian Mosimann

Johnson Chair, Associate Professor
(University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus)

Kevin Thiessen

Research Associate
(University of Bristol)

Renee Geck

Assistant Professor of Biology
(Gonzaga University)

Patrick Warwick

Supervisor
(OneOme)

Shawn Burgess

Senior Investigator
(NHGRI)

Gael Yvert

Deputy director
(Laboratory of Biology and Modeling of the Cell, CNRS and ENS de Lyon)

Jacques van Helden

Deputy Director, scientific coordinator
(Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB) / ELIXIR-France)

Silke Hauf

Associate Professor
(Virginia Tech)

Lauren Cockayne

Business Development Manager
(LIPID MAPS)

Deepak Unni

Scientific Coordinator
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Kurt Runge

Full Staff/Associate Professor
(Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine)

Manuel Luypaert

Bioinformatics software developer
(EMBL-EBI)

Nhu Dinh

Doctoral Student
(I2BC, CNRS Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

Jo McEntyre

Deputy Director
(EMBL-EBI (European Bioinformatics Institiute))

Antonia Lock

Senior database curator
(UniProt)

Valerie O’Donnell

Lead of Resource, Professor
(Cardiff University)

Robert Andrews

Senior Lecturer
(Cardiff University)

Andrés Becerra

Software Developer
(EMBL-EBI)

James Koltes

Associate Professor
(Iowa State University)

Erick Antezana

Senior Data Governance and Strategy Officer
(UNICC)

Sigurd Braun

Principal Investigator
(Justus Liebig University Giessen)

Débora Silva Raposo

Postdoctoral researcher
(GFBio – Gesellschaft für Biologische Daten e.V.)

Warwick Anderson

Emeritus Professor
(Monash University)

Kiyoko F. Aoki-Kinoshita

PI
(GlyCosmos Portal)

Amber Hartman Scholz

Head of Science Policy & Internationalization Department
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

DagmarTriebel

Senior researcher in mycology and biodiversity informatics
(Bavarian State Collections of Natural History)

Severine Duvaud

Team Lead, Biodata Resources
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Katjana Klages

Postdoc
(DSMZ)

Valerie THIBAUDEAU

Director of Research Infrastructures Division
(INSERM)

Neko(Ziyi) He

IT Operation Engineer for omics database
(China National GeneBank)

Chris W Seidel

Scientist
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Christopher J Tabone

Senior Programmer Analyst
(The Jackson Laboratory)

Kathryn Crouch

Lecturer in Bioinformatics
(University of Glasgow)

Nicholas Provart

Director, Bio-Analytic Resource for Plant Biology at the University of Toronto
(University of Toronto, Cell & Systems Biology)

Romulo de Castro

Director
(Center for Informatics University of San Agustin)

Susanne Lachmuth

Scientist
(Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF))

Alex Miklashevsky

Researcher
(WiNoDa Knowledge Lab, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)

Yuichi Kodama

Coordinator
(National Institute of Genetics)

Harold j Drabkin

Retired
(none)

Azadeh Shahsavar

Group Leader
(University of Copenhagen)

Claude Szpirer

Retired
(Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium))

Yuan Ren

Postdoc
(Yale University)

Susheel Varma

Chief Data Officer
(Sage Bionetworks)

Francis P. Crawley

Executive Director
(Good Clinical Practice Alliance – Europe (GCPA) & Strategic Initiative for Developing Capacity in Ethical Review (SIDCER))

Simon Harding

Database Developer
(University of Edinburgh)

Jacintha Toohey

Academic
(School of Law, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

Elspeth Bruford

Director of Research
(University of Cambridge)

Melania Muñoz García

ABS project manager
(Leibniz DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures)

Professor Anthony Davenport

Professor of Cardiovascular Pharmacology
()

Wendy Demos

Curator
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

Anne Kwitek

Principal Investigator, Rat Genome Database
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

Ruth Seal

HGNC gene nomenclature advisor
(University of Cambridge)

Lawson Messe

Research specialist
(University of Pennsylvania)

Gonçalo Themudo

Researcher
(CIIMAR)

Shur-Jen Wang

research scientist
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

G. Thomas Hayman

Research scientist/Curator
(Medical College of Wisconsin/Rat Genome Database)

Mary Kaldunski

Biocurator
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

Jennifer R Smith

Scientific Project Manager
(Medical College of Wisconsin)

John- Patrick Alao

Senior Research Officer
(Queen Mary University of London)

Susan Tweedie

Senior nomenclature advisor
(HGNC, University of Cambridge)

Leonore Wigger

Senior Computational Biologist
(SIB – Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Balázs Szappanos

Postdoctoral researcher
(HUN-REN Biological Research Centre)

Alan Bridge

Group Leader
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Ioannis Xenarios

Professor
(CHUV/UNIL and Health2030 Genome Center)

Sonia Balyan

Scientist
(Indian Biological Data Centre, Regional Centre for Biotechnology)

Berenice wulbrecht

Senior vice president product and solutions
(Ontoforce)

Michael Csukai

Head of Charaterization
(Biotalys)

Jeffrey Hoch

Director
(Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank)

Mihail Anton

PhD student
(Chalmers University of Technology)

David Gregornik

Director, Pharmacogenomics Program
(Children's Minnesota)

James Fellows Yates

Postdoctoral researcher
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Johan Rung

Head of SciLifeLab Data Centre
(SciLifeLab / Uppsala University)

Sandrine Muller

Assistant Professor
(University Grenoble Alpes)

Elena Cibrian Uhalte

Scientific curator
(Gene2Phenotype, EMBL-EBI)

Philip Strömert

Staff Researchet
(Leibniz-Institute TIB)

Silvio Tosatto

Full PRofessor of Bioinformatics
(University of Padova)

Sameer Velankar

Team leader and Senior scientist
(EMBL-EBI)

Mallory Freeberg

Human Genomics Team Lead
(EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute)

Matthew Hall

Senior Scientific Officer
(EMBL-EBI)

Victoria Jenkins

FlyBase curator
(Harvard Unversity)

Sanjay Deshpande

Scientist
(Indian Biological Data Centre)

Christopher I Hunter

GigaDB director
(GigaDB, GigaScience Press)

Sandra Orchard

Team Leader
(EMBL-EBI)

Clara Amid

Senior Data / Infrastructure Coordinator
(Erasmus MC)

Christopher Southan

Honorary Professor
(University of Edinburgh)

Maria Marti-Solano

Group Leader
(University of Cambridge)

Zsuzsa Sarkadi

postdoctoral researcher
(HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary)

Sofia Robb

Genomic Scientist
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Jay Unruh

Director of Scientific Data
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Karoly Kovacs

research fellow
(HUN-REN Biological Research Centre, Szeged)

Madelaine Gogol

Manager, Computational Biology
(Stowers Institute)

Martin Ringwald

Associate Professor
(The Jackson Laboratory)

Ceri Van Slyk

Curator/Product owner
(ZFIN/Alliance)

Matthias Lange

Senior Scientist Data Engineering
(IPK-Gatersleben)

Huzaifa Hassan

Bioinformatics Specialist III
(Stowers Institute for Medical Research)

Doug Howe

Scientific Curator, Zebrafish Information Network
(University of Oregon)

Ewan Birney

Deputy Director General EMBL, Director EMBL-EBI
(EMBL)

Christophe Dessimoz

Executive Director
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Norbert Perrimon

Professor of Genetics
(Harvard Medical School)

Christine Orengo

Professor of Bioinformatics
(University College London)

Thomas C Kaufman

Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
(Indiana University)

Lynn M. Schriml

PI
(Human Disease Ontology Knowledgebase)

Antje Jäde

Curation Expert
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH)

Valerie Wood

Project Manager/
(PomBase/ University of Cambridge)

Per Sunnerhagen

Professor
(University of Gothenburg)

Javerzat

PI
(CNRS)

Pascal BERNARD

PI, Senior Scientist
(CNRS)

Takashi Toda

Visiting Professor
(HIroshima University)

Michaela Schwaiger

Computational Biologist
(FMI)

Quan-wen Jin

Principal investigator
(Prof. Quan-wen Jin)

Carlo Yague-Sanz

scientist
(UNamur)

Jan Paleček

principal investigator
(Masaryk University)

Cristina Martín-Castellanos

Principal Investigator
(Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))

Frederic Bastian

Associate directors evolutionary bioinformatics group
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Henry Levin

Senior Investigator
(National Institutes of Health (NIH)-Bethesda)

Markus Göker

Database maintainer
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ — German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell)

Jian-Qiu Wu

Professor
(The Ohio State University)

Ana Claudia Sima

Co-Team Lead
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Yoshinori Watanabe

Professor
(Jiangnan University)

Hideki TOHDA

President
(Tohda Professional Engineer's office)

Teri E Klein

Professor
(Stanford University)

Rech de Laval

Staff
(UNIL)

Charles S Hoffman

Professor and Department Chair
(Boston College)

Stephen K. Burley

Director
(RCSB Protein Data Bank)

Stephen Oliver

Emeritus Professor of Systems Biology
(University of Cambridge)

Cath Brooksbank

Head of Training, EMBL-EBI; Data Science Training Lead, EMBL
(EMBL-EBI)

Lorenz Reimer

Head of scientific databases
(Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen)

Reine Protacio

Staff Scientist
(University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

Andrej Sali

Professor
(University of California)

Reine Protacio

Staff Scientist
(University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)

Francois Bachand

Professor
(Université de Sherbrooke)

Emma Sydir

PhD student
(Harvard University)

Noly Ambre

PhD student
(CNRS, CRBM)

Nathalie Bonnefoy

Director of Research
(CNRS-I2BC)

Meredith Betterton

Professor
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Eliza Lee

Postdoctoral associate
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Marcus Richards

PhD Student
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Lisa Hiura

Assistant Professor
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Nancy Walworth

Professor
(Rutgers University)

Monte Westerfield

Professor
(University of Oregon)

Travis Wheeler

Associate Professor
(University of Arizona)

Rachel Helston

Research Specialist
(Stowers Institute)

Sidney Rome

Student and Independent Research
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Maki Inada

Professor
(Ithaca college)

Peter D’Eustachio

Professor
(NYU Grossman School of Medicine)

Nora Hilda Rosas Murrieta

Researcher
(Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)

Heidi Rehm

Professor of Pathology
(Massachusetts General Hospital, Broad Institute or MIT and Harvard, and Harvard Medical School)

Jun-ichi Nakayama

Professor
(National Institute for Basic Biology)

Khawar Shabbir

Pharmacist
(Shabbir Inc Ltd)

Takayuki Koyano

Principal Investigator
(Shigei Medical Research Institute)

Michael Markie

Director of Community
(Incentivising Collaborative and Open Research)

Li-Lin Du

Investigator
(National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China)

Jonathan Tedds

Programme Manager for Scientific Computing
(ELIXIR Hub)

Lucy Poveda

Scientific Relations Manager
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Nikki Coutts

Project Manager
(ELIXIR)

Arzu Ozturk Colak

Research Associate
(University of Cambridge)

Rachel Tyndale

Professor
(Univ of Toronto)

Peter McQuilton

FAIR Semantics and Information Architecture
(Pharma)

Henning Hermjakob

Team Leader
(European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

Elena Hidalgo

Full Professor
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)

Chris Grove, PhD

biocurator, database developer
(California Institute of Technology)

Troy Moore

Chief Scientific Officer
(Kailos Genetics)

Leonore Reiser

Principal Biocuration Scientist
(Phoenix Bioinformatics / The Arabidopsis Information Resource)

Monica Poelchau

Geneticist
(USDA-ARS National Agricultural Library)

Jeremy desaphy

Scientific data director
(Eli Lilly and company)

Chris Mungall

Principal Investigator
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Jennifer Clarke

Professor and Director
(University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Camila Mazzoni

Research group leader
(Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research)

Marcela K Tello-Ruiz

Scientific Project Manager
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Birgit Meldal

Data Standards and Ontology Manager
(Private)

Ruth Duerr

Research Scholar
(Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship)

Peter Karp

Director, Bioinformatics Research Group
(SRI International)

Aylin Haas

Science Policy Officer
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

Sushma Nagaraja Grellscheid

Professor, Head of Node, ELIXIR
(University of Bergen, Norway)

Taro Nakamura

Professor
(Osaka Metropolitan University)

Lisa Matthews

Scientists
(NYU Grossman School of Medicine)

Fortune Ogo-ndah Awala

Lecturer
(Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, Nigeria)

Peter Wang

research scientist
(Stanford University)

Christian Pich

Architect
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Holly Paddock

Literature Analyst
(University of Oregon)

John Hancock

Visiting Professor
(University of Ljubljana)

Terje Klemetsen

Bioinformatician, Database curator
(UiT The Arctic University of Norway)

Fiona Brinkman

Distinguished Professor
(Simon Fraser University)

JIA-SYUAN HUANG

master student
(National Tsing Hua University)

Samantha Socco

Medical Science Liaison
(Myriad Genetics)

Christina Parry

Senior Biomedical Data Manager
(Sage Bioinetworks)

Robert Allaway

Associate Director, Rare Disease
(Sage Bionetworks)

Ryan Martin

Systems Administrator
(Zebrafish Model Organism Database)

Laurel Cooper

Biocurator, Program Manager Planteome Project
(Oregon State University)

Christopher D Shaffer

Senior Instructor
(Dept of Biology, Washington University in St. Louis)

Wei-Chia Tseng

Scientific Curator
(University of Oregon/ZFIN)

Ivan Topolsky

Senior Software Developer
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Tanya Berardini

Biocurator, Resource Director
(The Arabidopsis Information Resource/MorphoBank/Phoenix Bioinformatics)

Michele Sabra Basiliere

Genomic Science Specialist
(Quest Diagnostics)

Josh Goodman

Senior Software Engineer
(Genomenon)

Colman O’Cathail

European Nucelotide Archive Project Lead and Product Owner
(EMBL-EBI)

Meredith Masiello

Genetic counselor
(Quest Diagnostics)

Jeena Rajan

FAIR Data Coordinator
(EMBL-EBI)

Tanda

Researcher
(UoM)

Mark Quinton-Tulloch

Senior Bioinformatics Developer
(EMBL-EBI)

Ulrike Wittig

Biocurator
(Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies)

Olaf Banki

Managing Director
(Catalogue of Life)

Dom Helmlinger

Group Leader
(CNRS)

Paola Roncaglia

Scientific Data Curator and Ontologist
(Independent Consultant)

Quentin Groom

Biodiversity Informatics
(Meise Botanic Garden)

Cyrine Haidar

Associate Member
(St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)

Pavel L.

Researcher
(Saint-Petersburg State University)

Sushma Naithani

Lead Biocurator for Plant Reactome Knowledgebase
(Oregon State University)

Peter Maccallum

Chief Technical Officer
(ELIXIR Europe)

Rachel Drysdale Ph.D.

Genetic and genomic databases
(Cambridge)

Giuseppe Nicosia

Professor of AI & Synthetic Biology
(University of Catania, Italy)

Hung-Yu Chen

Master student
(National Tsing Hua University Institute of Molecular Medicine)

I-Ju Lee

Assistant Professor
(National Tsing Hua University)

Stavros Diamantakis

BioCurator/Bioinformatician
(European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) / WormBase)

Nancy T Li

Outreach Coordinator for Reactome
(Ontario Institute for Cancer Research)

L Sian Gramates

Biocurator
(Harvard University/FlyBase)

Yvonne Bradford

Project Manger
(ZFIN/University of Oregon)

Ray Stefancsik

Ontology Editor
(European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI))

Marina DiStefano

Associate Lab Director
(The Broad Institute)

Leonardo Chimirri

Research Assistant/PostDoc
(Berlin Institute of Health at Charite)

Barbara Klanderman

Sr. Research Scientist
(Mass General Brigham Personalized Medicine)

Damien Goutte-Gattat

Research Assistant
(University of Cambridge)

Nicolas Matentzoglu

Independent Consultant
(Monarch Initiative)

Robert Waterhouse

Research Group Director
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Liz Gaberdiel

PhD Student
(University of Edinburgh)

Bailey Tibben

Lead Researcher
(St Jude Children's Research Hospital)

Anton Petrov

Director
(Riboscope Ltd)

Jerven Bolleman

Principal Software Engineer
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Balazs Papp

Principal Investigator
(HUN-REN Biological Research Centre)

Ana Rath

Director
(Inserm, US14 – Orphanet)

Davide Faggionato

Project Officer
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ)

Carl Anthony Morrow

Postdoctoral Researcher
(University of Oxford)

Jan Gerken

Head of SILVA
(Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH)

Emanuel Souza de Quadros

NLP Researcher
(Leibniz-Institut DSMZ)

M.-Henar

Principal Investigatos and Associate professor
(Universidad de Salamanca)

Andrew Smith

Head of External Relations
(ELIXIR Europe)

Kazuhiro Shiozaki

President
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Matt Rogers

Founder
(Hex Digital)

Rosa Aligué

Principal investigator
(Universitat de Barcelona)

Jennifer Gibson

Executive Director
(Dryad)

Dr. Barbara Ebert

Executive Director
(GFBio – German Federation for Biological Data)

Frank Oliver Glöckner

Lead of Data Division
(Alfred Wegener Institute – Helmholtz Center for Polar- and Marine Research)

Zhenxin Yan

Postdoc fellow
(Peking University)

Hyang-Sook Yoo

Researcher emeritus
(Korea Research Institute of Bioscience & Biotechnology)

Gerry Smith

Professor
(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)

Luis Lopez Maury

Associatte Professor
(Universidad de Sevilla)

Nicola Soranzo

Researcher
(Earlham Institute)

Ann Ehrenhofer-Murray

Professor of Molecular Cell Biology
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Bob Sacamano

Student
(Manchester University)

Songtao Jia

Professor
(Columbia University)

Anuja George

Research Teaching Specialist
(Rutgers University)

Zachary Hazlett

Graduate Student
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Oisín Southerland

Primary Research Assistant
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Sierra Cullati

Assistant Professor
(Western Washington University)

Jacob Stanley

Scientist
(University of Colorado)

Atma Ivancevic

Research Associate
(University of Colorado Boulder)

Hope Townsend

PhD Candidate
(University of Colorado-Boulder)

Kathleen Gould

Professor
(Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)

Lambert

Team leader
(Institut Curie CNRS)

Alaina Willet

Research assistant professor
(Vanderbilt University)

Sandra Bruderer

PhD student
(ETH)

Grigoris Amoutzias

Professor of Bioinformatics with emphasis in Microbiology
(University of Thessaly, Greece)

Malachi Griffith

Associate Professor
(Washington University)

Boris Sieber

Postdoctoral researcher
(University of Geneva)

Amos Bairoch

Group leader
(Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and University of Geneva)

Nick Ader

Assistant Professor
(University of North Carolina Greensboro)

Gavin Farrell

PhD Candidate
(ELIXIR Italy)

Patricia Palagi

Director, SIB Training
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Matthew Whitby

Professor of Molecular Genetics
(University of Oxford)

Alexander Lorenz

Senior Lecturer (Assoc.-Prof.)
(University of Aberdeen)

Prof. Ursula Fleig

PI
(Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf)

Sarune Bollé

PhD student
(Heinrich Heine University)

Dan Zhang

Principal Investigator
(Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory)

Kalle von Feilitzen

Head of Bioinformatics & IT
(Human Protein Atlas)

Megan King

Associate Professor of Cell Biology
(Yale University)

Marc S. Halfon

Professor
(University at Buffalo)

Steven Marygold

Principal Research Associate
(FlyBase, University of Cambridge)

Brian R. Calvi

Professor / Principle Investigator
(Indiana University)

Melissa Harrison

Team Leader
(EMBL-EBI)

Daniel Garcia-Ruano

Non-tenured associate professor
(Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Team, Institute of Biochemical and Cellular Genetics – University of Bordeaux)

Fabian Poetz

Postdoc
(Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

Ronit Weisman

Principal Investigator
(Open University of Israel)

Daniel Rodriguez

PhD student
(Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

Jose Ayte

Professor
(Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

LE GOFF Xavier

Permanent Research Fellow
(CNRS UMR 6290 Institut of Genetics and Development of Rennes)

Jurg Bahler

Professor
(University College London)

Christos Ouzounis

Professor
(Aristotle University, Thessalonica)

Kentaro Nakano

Professor
(University of Tsukuba)

Dr Nicholas Kent

Reader
(School of Biosciences, Cardiff University)

Matthew Swaffer

Group Leader
(University of Edinburgh)

Merle Skribbe

PhD student
(Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research)

Elena Faccenda

Senior curator
(GuidetoPHARMACOLOGY)

Bilge Argunhan

Postdoctoral research fellow
(Imperial College London)

Lubomir Tomaska

Professor
(Comenius University in Bratislava)

Nick Rhind

Professor
(UMass Med School)

Sofía Muñoz

Group leader
(Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics)

Elizabeth Bayne

PI
(University of Edinburgh)

Francisco Antequera

Research Professor
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC))

Hirohisa Ebina

Postdoc
(ETH Zurich)

Jamie Davies

PI Guide to Pharmacology Database
(University of Edinburgh)

Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Professor
(University of Lausanne)

Philippe Sanseau

Head of Applied Genomics
(GSK)

Chris Bowler

Research Director
(CNRS)

Ron Appel

Former Executive Director
(SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)

Seungwoo Hwang

Principal Investigator
(Korea Bioinformation Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology)

Phil Bourne

Professor of Data Science
(University of Virginia)

Susan M Bello

ISB Executive Committee Chair
(on behalf of the International Society for Biocuration)

Varsha K Khodiyar, PhD

Director
(Echobyte Data Solutions)

Christine Durinx

Managing Director
(VIB, Belgium)

Yasukazu Nakamura

Professor
(DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ), National Institute of Genetics, ROIS, Japan)

Paula Mabee, Ph.D

Chief Scientist and Observatory Director
(National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle)

Nicola Mulder

Principal Investigator
(H3ABioNet, South Africa)

Josefina Campos

(Global Biodata Coalition Scientific Advisory Committee member)

Yongbiao XUE

(Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Professor Brian Nosek

(on behalf of the Center for Open Science)

Dr Hilary Hanahoe

Secretary General
(on behalf of the Research Data Alliance)

Dr Konstantinos Repanas

Policy Officer – Open Science & Research Infrastructure,DG Research & Innovation
(European Commission)

James Deshler

PhD, Division Director (Acting)
(Division of Biological Infrastructure, US National Science Foundation)

Inge Jonassen

(University of Bergen, Norway)

Scott Edmunds

Editor in Chief
(GigaScience Press, Hong Kong)

Helen M. Berman

Professor Emerita
(Rutgers the State University of New Jersey, Director Emerita, RCSB Protein Data Bank, Research Professor, University of Southern California)

Dr. Luis Delaye-Arredondo

Director
(Advanced Genomics Unit, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico)

Dr. Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

Head of Genomic Services
(Advanced Genomics Unit, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, Mexico)

Eric Karsenti

Visitor Scientist EMBL, Member of the French Academy of Sciences, Member of EMBO, Gold medal 2015 CNRS, Founder of Tara Oceans expedition and research program
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Guilherme Oliveira

Scientific Director
(Vale Institute of Technology, Brazil)

Prof. Dr. Jörg Overmann

Scientific Director
(Leibniz-Institute DSMZ- Germany, Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures)

Dr Rolf Apweiler

Co-Director
(EMBL-EBI)

Yiming Bao

Director
(National Genomics Data Center, China)