Table 1.

Individuals who made significant contributions that influenced this Hierarchical Model Composition specification.

Contributor	Affiliation	City and Country
Frank Bergmann	California Institute of Technology	Pasadena, CA, US
Michael Blinov	University of Connecticut Health Center	Farmington, CT, US
Nicolas Le Novère	EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute	Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
Ranjit Randhawa	Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech.	Blacksburg, VA, US
Jörg Stelling	Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems	Magdeburg, DE
Jonathan Webb	BBN Technologies	Cambridge, MA, US