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SBGN is the result of many people's efforts. This page lists specific individuals and contact information, but this short list is not meant to diminish the contributions of the broader community of people and companies developing software systems that use SBGN.
The SBGN Editors work towards distilling discussions and requests into coherent specification documents, addressing comments and questions, correcting errata, and generally managing revisions to the SBGN specifications.
The current editors of the SBGN are:
The authors of the SBGN Progress Diagrams Level 1 specification are:
- Nicolas Le Novère
- Stuart Moodie
- Anatoly Sorokin
- Michael Hucka
- Emek Demir
- Huaiyu Mi
- Yukiko Matsuoka
- Katja Wegner
- Hiroaki Kitano
For bug reports about the specification: please use the SBGN issue tracker on SourceForge.net.
For general discussions about SBGN: please join the sbgn-discuss@sbgn.org mailing list (or use the online forum interface) and bring up the topic there.
For specific questions about this website, workshops, or other SBGN resource management topics: please send email to sbgn-team@sbgn.org.
We are deeply indebted to the many funding agencies and organizations that have supported SBGN over the years.
The development of SBGN during 2005–2008 was mainly supported by a grant from the Japanese New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The principal investigators were Hiroaki Kitano, Akira Funahashi, Nicolas Le Novère, and Michael Hucka. The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), the British Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) through a Japan Partnering Award, the European Media Laboratory (EML Research GmbH), and the Beckman Institute BNMC at the California Institute of Technology provided additional support for SBGN workshops. The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and the Genome Network Project of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Sports, Culture, Science, and Technology (MEXT) also supported the development of the gene regulation network aspect of SBGN.
No one—not the principal investigators, nor the SBGN Editors, nor the funding agencies or anyone else—owns SBGN; it is a free and open community effort that extends beyond any single group, and we view ourselves only as organizers and fellow developers.