1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK
2Department of Computational Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
3Center for non-coding RNA in Technology and Health, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark
4Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, and the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
5dictyBase, Northwestern University, 420 E. Superior St., Chicago, IL 60611, USA
6Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
7Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK
8Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, London, UK
9Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
10DIANA-Lab, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, 382 21 Volos, Greece
11Hellenic Pasteur Institute, 127 Vasilissis Sofias Avenue, 11521 Athens, Greece
12Ghent University and Cancer Research Institute Ghent, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
13St Vincent's Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia
14BIG Data Center, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
15Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
16International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
17Jackson Laboratory, 600 Main St., Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA
18Key Laboratory of RNA Biology, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
19Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China
20Cambridge Systems Biology and Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Sanger Building, 80 Tennis Court Road, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire CB2 1GA, UK
21Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
22College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, St John's University, Queens, NY 11439, USA
23Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON M5G 0A3, Canada
24National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
25Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
26Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
27Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, D-28359 Bremen
28Jacobs University Bremen, School of Engineering and Science, D-28759 Bremen
29Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan
30Phoenix Bioinformatics, Fremont, CA 94538, USA
31Systems Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA 94551, USA
32Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, and Interdisciplinary Centre for Bioinformatics, Leipzig University, Härtelstr. 1618, 04107 Leipzig, Germany
33Competence Center for Scalable Data Services and Solutions Dresden/Leipzig, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases, Universität Leipzig, Ritterstrasse 9–13, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
34Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Insel Strasse 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
35Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology, Perlickstrasse 1, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
36Department of Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Wahringerstrasse 17, 1090 Vienna, Austria
37Center for RNA in Technology and Health, University of Copenhagen, Grønnegårdsvej 3, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
38Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
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