Benjamin C. Hitz

TL;DR: A novel approach and database, RegulomeDB, which guides interpretation of regulatory variants in the human genome, which includes high-throughput, experimental data sets from ENCODE and other sources, as well as computational predictions and manual annotations to identify putative regulatory potential and identify functional variants.

TL;DR: The Saccharomyces Genome Database is an encyclopedia of the yeast genome, its chromosomal features, their functions and interactions, and public access to these data is provided to researchers and educators via web pages designed for optimal ease of use.

TL;DR: The encyclopedia of DNA elements (ENCODE) Data Coordinating Center has developed the ENCODE Portal database and website as the source for the data and metadata generated by the Encode Consortium as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The GO Consortium has launched a focused effort to provide comprehensive and detailed annotation of orthologous genes across a number of ‘reference’ genomes, including human and several key model organisms.

TL;DR: The Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium is a community-based bioinformatics resource that classifies gene product function through the use of structured, controlled vocabularies and has been expanded not only to cover new areas of biology through focused interaction with experts, but also to capture greater specificity in all areas of the ontology.