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Thanks to all those who reviewed for Genome Biology in 2016

The editors and staff of Genome Biology would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 17 (2016).

Adam Abate, USA

Aziz Aboobaker, UK

John Achermann, UK

David Adams, UK

Keith Adams, Canada

Jerzy Adamski, Germany

Mazhar Adli, USA

Stein Aerts, Belgium

Mar Alba, Spain

Alexander Alekseyenko, USA

Ash Alizadeh, USA

Can Alkan, Turkey

Robin Allaby, UK

Anna Amtmann, UK

Simon Anders, Finland

Graham Anderson, UK

Anna Andersson, Sweden

Arno Andeweg, Netherlands

Simon Andrews, UK

Konstantin Arbeev, USA

David Arnosti, USA

Manimozhiyan Arumugam, Denmark

Kin Fai Au, USA

Ferhat Ay, USA

Ozgun Babur, USA

Sergio Bacallado, UK

Laura Banaszynski, USA

Sandro Banfi, Italy

Jillian Banfield, USA

Charles Bangham, UK

Claudia Bank, Portugal

Lei Bao, USA

Pavel Baranov, Ireland

Fredy Barneche, France

Luis Barreiro, Canada

Ben Barres, USA

David Bartel, USA

Eduard Batlle, Spain

Miguel Beato, Spain

Claude Becker, Austria

Niko Beerenwinkel, Switzerland

Christopher Bell, UK

Jordana Bell, UK

Michele Bellucci, Italy

Arnold Bendich, USA

Philip Benfey, USA

Jeffrey Bennetzen, USA

Bonnie Berger, USA

Frederic Berger, Austria

Lars Bertram, Germany

Jaume Bertranpetit, Spain

Andreas Beyer, Germany

Jong Bhak, South Korea

Wendy Bickmore, UK

Andrea Bild, USA

Ran Blekhman, USA

Christoph Bock, Austria

Hanno Bolz, Germany

Richard Bonneau, USA

Peer Bork, Germany

Piet Borst, Netherlands

Steven Bosinger, USA

Paul Boutros, Canada

Dawn Bowdish, Canada

Alan Boyle, USA

Zbynek Bozdech, Singapore

Steven Brant, USA

Nick Bray, UK

Volker Brendel, USA

Julius Brennecke, Austria

Michael Brent, USA

Carolyn Brown, Canada

C. Titus Brown, USA

Thijn Brummelkamp, Netherlands

Etienne Bucher, France

Philipp Bucher, Switzerland

Florian Buettner, Germany

Jeremy Buhler, USA

Shawn Burgess, USA

Stephen Burgess, UK

Gaetan Burgio, Australia

Kerstin Bystricky, France

Bradley Cairns, USA

Piero Carninci, Japan

Laura Carrel, USA

Christine Carrington, Trinidad And Tobago

Jason Carroll, UK

Gregory Carter, USA

Rita Casadio, Italy

Claudio Casola, USA

Sergi Castellano, Germany

Alfredo Castello, UK

Goncalo Castelo-Branco, Sweden

Amy Caudy, Canada

Andrea Cavallini, Italy

Gianni Cesareni, Italy

David Cescon, Canada

Brian Chadwick, USA

Grant Challen, USA

Diana Chang, USA

Howard Chang, USA

Brian Charlesworth, UK

Ken Chen, USA

Wei Chen, Germany

Dahua Chen, China

Rong Chen, USA

Chia-Yen Chen, USA

Luonan Chen, China

Artem Cherkasov, Canada

Jen-Tsan Chi, USA

Rayan Chikhi, France

Pascal-Antoine Christin, UK

Nam-Hai Chua, USA

Wendy Chung, USA

Ho-Ryun Chung, Germany

Gary Churchill, USA

Francesca Ciccarelli, UK

Manfred Claassen, Switzerland

Susan Clark, Australia

Duncan Clarke, USA

Bryan Coburn, Canada

Gerhard Coetzee, USA

Hilary Coller, USA

Vincent Colot, France

Andres Colubri, USA

John Conboy, USA

Ana Conesa, Spain

Karen Conneely, USA

William Cookson, UK

Victor Corces, USA

Max Costa, USA

Mary-Ellen Costello, Australia

Chris Cotsapas, USA

Juan Couso, UK

Peter Csermely, Hungary

Aedin Culhane, USA

Edwin Cuppen, Netherlands

Lawrence David, USA

Chen Davidovich, Australia

Nicholas Davidson, USA

Kelly Dawe, USA

Wouter De Laat, Netherlands

Elzo de Wit, Netherlands

Emmie de Wit, USA

Jonas Demeulemeester, UK

Francesca Demichelis, Italy

Ayse Demirkan, Netherlands

Sharon Dent, USA

Colin Dewey, USA

Sven Diederichs, Germany

Chunming Ding, Singapore

Ron Do, USA

John Doench, USA

David Donze, USA

Josee Dostie, Canada

Zhijun Duan, USA

Dieter Ebert, Switzerland

John Edwards, USA

David Edwards, Australia

Judith Eisen, USA

Eli Eisenberg, Israel

Ioannis Eleftherianos, USA

Astrid Engel, USA

Mark Enright, UK

Jason Ernst, USA

Peter Espenshade, USA

Stephen Eyre, UK

Guoping Fan, USA

Charles Farber, USA

Maha Farhat, USA

Geoffrey Faulkner, Australia

Elaine Faustman, USA

Andrew Feinberg, USA

Bo Feng, Hong Kong

Noah Fierer, USA

Mark Fiers, Netherlands

Dmitry Filatov, UK

James Flanagan, UK

Richard Flavell, USA

Ronan Fleming, Luxembourg

Liliana Florea, USA

Douglas Fowler, USA

Mario Fraga, Spain

Nicole Francis, Canada

Lude Franke, Netherlands

Andre Franke, Germany

Hunter Fraser, USA

Peter Fraser, UK

Timothy Frayling, UK

Kelly Frazer, USA

Ari Friedland, USA

Marc Friedländer, Sweden

Jingyuan Fu, Netherlands

Terry Furey, USA

Niels Galjart, Netherlands

Jason Gallant, USA

Caixia Gao, China

Jose Garcia-Perez, UK

Laurence Garczarek, France

Kyle Gaulton, USA

Brandon Gaut, USA

Daniel Gautheret, France

Mary Gehring, USA

Andre Gerber, UK

Georg Gerber, USA

Clarissa Gerhäuser, Germany

Marco Gerlinger, UK

Mark Gerstein, USA

Yoav Gilad, USA

Wendy Gilbert, USA

David Gilbert, USA

Thomas Gilbert, Denmark

Santhosh Girirajan, USA

Adam Godzik, USA

Omer Gokcumen, USA

Josefa Gonzalez, Spain

Sara Goodwin, USA

Anne Goriely, UK

Myriam Gorospe, USA

Raphael Gottardo, USA

Bertie Gottgens, UK

Trevor Graham, UK

Daniel Graham, USA

Marie-Angele Grandbastien, France

Jacob Gratten, Australia

Celia Greenwood, Canada

Eric Greer, USA

Richard Gregory, USA

Andrew Grimson, USA

Albert Groen, Netherlands

Ingrid Grummt, Germany

Elin Grundberg, Canada

Shuo Gu, USA

Shengxi Guan, USA

Yan Guo, USA

Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, USA

Brian Haas, USA

Matthew Hahn, USA

W. Nicholas Haining, USA

Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Canada

Michael Halassa, USA

Neil Hall, UK

Christian Hammann, Germany

Axel Hansen, Denmark

Kasper Hansen, USA

Bengt Hansson, Sweden

Ross Hardison, USA

Olivier Harismendy, USA

Richard Hayes, USA

Xin He, USA

Yuehui He, China

Jayne Hehir-Kwa, Netherlands

Bas Heijmans, Netherlands

Matthias Heinig, Germany

Marcus Heisler, UK

Garrett Hellenthal, UK

Ian Henderson, UK

Lars Hennig, Sweden

Holger Heyn, Spain

Stephanie Hicks, USA

Paul Higgs, Canada

Ichiro Hiratani, Japan

Andreas Hochwagen, USA

Steve Hoffmann, Germany

Oliver Hofmann, USA

James Holland, USA

Ed Hollox, UK

Robert Holt, Canada

Steve Horvath, USA

E. Andres Houseman, USA

Andrew Hsieh, USA

Ming Hu, USA

R. Stephanie Huang, USA

Jinling Huang, USA

Sanwen Huang, China

Danwei Huangfu, USA

Wolfgang Huber, Germany

Chad Huff, USA

Matthew Hufford, USA

David Hume, UK

Heather Hundley, USA

Kent Hunter, USA

Bonnie Hurwitz, USA

Daniel Huson, Germany

Curtis Huttenhower, USA

Trey Ideker, USA

Axel Imhof, Germany

Erik Ingelsson, USA

Nicholas Ingolia, USA

Sachi Inukai, USA

Iuliana Ionita-Laza, USA

Rafael Irizarry, USA

Shalev Itzkovitz, Israel

Julijana Ivanisevic, Switzerland

Andrew Jaffe, USA

Samie Jaffrey, USA

Philippe Jay, France

Kate Jeffrey, USA

Barbara Jennings, UK

Sissel Jentoft, Norway

Andrzej Jerzmanowski, Poland

Chris Jiggins, UK

Victor Jin, USA

Peng Jin, USA

Li Jin, China

Mark Johnson, USA

Andrew Johnson, USA

Patricia Johnson, USA

Ho Won Jung, South Korea

Tomasz Jurkowski, Germany

Parijat Juvale, USA

Tetsuji Kakutani, Japan

Sundeep Kalantry, USA

Sophien Kamoun, UK

Hyun Min Kang, USA

Noam Kaplan, USA

Martin Kapun, Switzerland

Francois Karch, Switzerland

Rachel Karchin, USA

Jack Keene, USA

Jens Keilwagen, Germany

Sunduz Keles, USA

Andreas Keller, Germany

Steven Kelly, UK

Karl Kelsey, USA

Gavin Kelsey, UK

Janet Kelso, Germany

Christina Kendziorski, USA

Scott Kennedy, USA

Peter Kharchenko, USA

Ekta Khurana, USA

Hyongbum Kim, South Korea

Tae-Kyung Kim, USA

Junhyong Kim, USA

Philip Kim, Canada

Martin Kircher, USA

Allon Klein, USA

Joel Kleinman, USA

Ben Kleinstiver, USA

Michael Kobor, Canada

Devin Koestler, USA

Claudia Kohler, Sweden

Aleksandra Kolodziejczyk, UK

Jan Korbel, Germany

Romain Koszul, France

Igor Kovalchuk, Canada

Anshul Kundaje, USA

Kousik Kundu, UK

Zoltan Kutalik, Switzerland

Ashish Lal, USA

Hugo Lam, USA

Tak-Wah Lam, Hong Kong

Peter Langridge, Australia

Tuuli Lappalainen, USA

Mark Lathrop, Canada

Julie Law, USA

Nathan Lawson, USA

Ryan Layer, USA

Francois le Dily, Spain

Karine Le Roch, USA

Matt Lebo, USA

Je Lee, USA

Gerd Leitinger, Austria

Boris Lenhard, UK

Christina Leslie, USA

Robert Lesurf, USA

Guillaume Lettre, Canada

Erez Levanon, Israel

Mitchell Levesque, Switzerland

Zachary Lewis, USA

Mathew Lewsey, Australia

Ruth Ley, Germany

Bo Li, USA

Fei Li, China

Wei Li, USA

Hongzhe Li, USA

Xia Li, China

Guoliang Li, China

Jinsong Li, China

Gangning Liang, USA

Romain Libbrecht, Switzerland

Erez Lieberman Aiden, USA

Daniel Lim, USA

Shili Lin, USA

Zhongxu Lin, China

Joerg Linde, Germany

Charlotte Ling, Sweden

Marie Lipoldova, Czech Republic

Ryan Lister, Australia

Jennifer Listgarten, USA

Qi Liu, China

Yao-Guang Liu, China

Chunyu Liu, USA

Ge Liu, USA

Shirley Liu, USA

Yongchao Liu, USA

Mats Ljungman, USA

Bastien Llamas, Australia

Manuel Llinas, USA

Dennis Yuk Ming Lo, Hong Kong

Ben Logsdon, USA

Marie Loh, Singapore

Dietmar Lohmann, Germany

Sherene Loi, Australia

Matt Loose, UK

Ann Loraine, USA

Stephan Lorenz, UK

Hua Lou, USA

Robert Lowe, UK

Catherine Lozupone, USA

Qiongshi Lu, USA

Katie Lunnon, UK

Chengwei Luo, USA

Robert Lyle, Norway

David Macalpine, USA

Iain Macaulay, UK

Todd Macfarlan, USA

David MacHugh, Ireland

Trudy Mackay, USA

Luca Magnani, UK

Christopher Maher, USA

Magdy Mahfouz, Saudi Arabia

Shaun Mahony, USA

Eugene Makeyev, Singapore

Jovana Maksimovic, Australia

Ryszard Maleszka, Australia

Costas Maranas, USA

Jonathan Marchini, UK

Elaine Mardis, USA

Davide Marenduzzo, UK

John Marioni, UK

Florian Markowetz, UK

Hendrik Marks, Netherlands

Annalisa Marsico, Germany

John Martens, Netherlands

Martin Martin, USA

Marc Marti-Renom, Spain

Ruth Massey, UK

Matthew Maurano, USA

Mark McCarthy, UK

Linda McCauley, USA

John McEwan, New Zealand

Karen McGinnis, USA

Nicholas McGranahan, UK

Ross McManus, Ireland

Allan McRae, Australia

Brian McStay, Ireland

Mitch McVey, USA

Adam Mead, UK

Enzo Medico, Italy

Ruslan Medzhitov, USA

Heather Mefford, USA

Marta Mele, USA

Pall Melsted, Iceland

Karyn Meltz Steinberg, USA

Fernando Mendez, USA

Didier Merlin, USA

Michael Metzger, USA

Folker Meyer, USA

Tom Michoel, UK

Tarjei Mikkelsen, USA

Jonathan Mill, UK

Chris Miller, USA

Stefania Millevoi, France

Ryan Mills, USA

Dan Mishmar, Israel

Rakesh Mishra, India

Tom Misteli, USA

Danesh Moazed, USA

Karen Mohlke, USA

Grant Montgomery, Australia

Peter Morrell, USA

Alison Morris, USA

Quaid Morris, Canada

Rebecca Mosher, USA

Lukas Mueller, USA

Ville Mustonen, UK

Simon Myers, UK

Deepak Nagrath, USA

Shalin Naik, Australia

Olivier Namy, France

Mandikandan Narayanan, USA

Masashi Narita, UK

Nicholas Navin, USA

Renuka Nayak, USA

Daniel Neafsey, USA

Vladimir Nekrasov, UK

Pauline Ng, Singapore

Sebastian Nijman, UK

Itoshi Nikaido, Japan

Zemin Ning, UK

Gary Nolan, USA

Daan Noordermeer, France

Magnus Nordborg, Austria

Agneta Nordenskjold, Sweden

Carl Novina, USA

Carole Ober, USA

Howard Ochman, USA

Mary O'Connell, Czech Republic

Uwe Ohler, Germany

Magali Olivier, France

Miina Ollikainen, Finland

Oskar Ortiz, Germany

Alicia Oshlack, Australia

Thomas Otto, UK

Marc Ouellette, Canada

Zhengqing Ouyang, USA

Ivan Ovcharenko, USA

Coro Paisan-Ruiz, USA

Chongle Pan, USA

Peter Park, USA

Woong-Yang Park, South Korea

Stephen Parker, USA

Leopold Parts, UK

Tomi Pastinen, Canada

Benedict Paten, USA

Rob Patro, USA

Paul Pavlidis, Canada

Frances Pearl, UK

Ales Pecinka, Germany

Oluf Pedersen, Denmark

Itsik Pe'er, USA

Matteo Pellegrini, USA

Jerry Pelletier, Canada

Gary Peltz, USA

Alberto Pendás, Spain

Sarah Pendergrass, USA

Enrico Petretto, UK

Slavé Petrovski, Australia

Belinda Phipson, Australia

Craig Pikaard, USA

Paul Planet, USA

Matthias Platzer, Germany

Dariusz Plewczynski, Poland

Katherine Pollard, USA

Kornelia Polyak, USA

Constantin Polychronakos, Canada

Ana Pombo, Germany

Charalabos Pothoulakis, USA

Joseph Powell, Australia

Lance Price, USA

Jonathan Pritchard, USA

Holger Puchta, Germany

B. Franklin Pugh, USA

Michael Purugganan, USA

Shu-Bin Qian, USA

Zilong Qiu, China

Christopher Quince, UK

Aaron Quinlan, USA

Kunal Rai, USA

Vardhman Rakyan, UK

Octavio Ramilo, USA

Rama Ranganathan, USA

David Rasko, USA

Magnus Rattray, UK

Pierre Ray, France

Soumya Raychaudhuri, USA

Timothy Read, USA

Tim Reddy, USA

Wolf Reik, UK

Jorge Reis-Filho, USA

Caroline Relton, UK

Bernhard Renard, Germany

Isidore Rigoutsos, USA

Marylyn Ritchie, USA

Mark Robinson, Switzerland

Gene Robinson, USA

Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Switzerland

Antonis Rokas, USA

Susan Ross, USA

Ellen Rothenberg, USA

Marianne Rots, Netherlands

Guy Rouleau, Canada

Sameek Roychowdhury, USA

Steven Rozen, Singapore

Oliver Ryder, USA

David Sabatini, USA

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Germany

Naruya Saitou, Japan

John Samuelson, USA

Rickard Sandberg, Sweden

Guido Sanguinetti, UK

Serena Sanna, Italy

Vittorio Sartorelli, USA

Rahul Satija, USA

Eric Schadt, USA

Stephen Scherer, Canada

Robert Schlaberg, USA

Thomas Schmidt, Germany

Robert Schmitz, USA

Korbinian Schneeberger, Germany

Angelika Schnieke, Germany

Markus Scholz, Germany

Dirk Schubeler, Switzerland

Marcel Schulz, Germany

Benjamin Schuster-Boeckler, UK

Russell Schwartz, USA

Erich Schwarz, USA

Emanuel Schwarz, Germany

Nicola Segata, Italy

Colin Semple, UK

Nicolas Servant, France

Thomas Sexton, France

Premal Shah, USA

Sohrab Shah, Canada

Alex Shalek, USA

Jesse Shapiro, Canada

Andrew Sharp, USA

Yufeng Shen, USA

Wen-Hui Shen, France

Xiaohua Shen, China

Hirofumi Shintaku, Japan

Wenjie Shu, China

Oliver Sieber, Australia

Kimberly Siegmund, USA

Roy Silverstein, USA

Peter Sims, USA

Mona Singh, USA

Manuela Sironi, Italy

Susan Slager, USA

R. Keith Slotkin, USA

Leo Smith, USA

Andrew Smith, USA

Eric Soler, France

Paul Soloway, USA

Chi Song, USA

Chunxiao Song, UK

Jun Song, USA

Nancy Spinner, USA

Mark Springer, USA

Nathan Springer, USA

Rupa Sridharan, USA

Angela Stathopoulos, USA

Oliver Stegle, UK

Lars Steinmetz, USA

James Stewart, Germany

Mark Stoneking, Germany

Gisela Storz, USA

Xinzhuan Su, USA

Andrew Su, USA

Bing Su, China

Karsten Suhre, Qatar

Matthew Sullivan, USA

Yijun Sun, USA

Deqiang Sun, USA

Renee Sung, USA

Fran Supek, Spain

Katalin Susztak, USA

James Sutcliffe, USA

Granger Sutton, USA

Mario Suva, USA

Charles Swanton, UK

Piroska Szabo, USA

Kai Tan, USA

Jason Tanny, Canada

Savas Tay, Switzerland

James Taylor, USA

Sarah Teichmann, UK

Andrew Teschendorff, China

Herve Tettelin, USA

Peter Tiffin, USA

Brian Tjaden, USA

David Tollervey, UK

Weida Tong, USA

Amy Toth, USA

Zlatko Trajanoski, Austria

Tim Triche, USA

Gosia Trynka, UK

Shengdar Tsai, USA

Isheng Jason Tsai, Taiwan

John Tsang, USA

Zhijian Tu, USA

Abigail Tucker, UK

Tamir Tuller, Israel

Michael Tunney, UK

Franziska Turck, Germany

Benjamin Tycko, USA

Chris Tyler-Smith, UK

Jernej Ule, UK

Igor Ulitsky, Israel

David Ussery, Denmark

Juan Valcarcel, Spain

Enza Maria  Valente, Italy

Wim van Criekinge, Belgium

Edwin van den Oord, USA

Peter Van Loo, UK

Raghavan Varadarajan, India

Matthew Vaughn, USA

Linda Vigilant, Germany

Jaak Vilo, Estonia

Peter Visscher, Australia

Lisenka Vissers, Netherlands

Thierry Voet, Belgium

Christian von Mering, Switzerland

Claes Wadelius, Sweden

Stephen Waggoner, USA

Wolfgang Wagner, Germany

Chris Wallace, UK

Xiaowei Wang, USA

Shuang Wang, USA

Ting Wang, USA

Jeremy Wang, USA

Tao Wang, USA

Zhong Wang, USA

Xiaosong Wang, USA

Yong Wang, USA

Jianlong Wang, USA

Zefeng Wang, China

Mick Watson, UK

Mike Weedon, UK

Wensheng Wei, China

Detlef Weigel, Germany

joachim weischenfeldt, Denmark

Jonathan Weissman, USA

Robert West, USA

Alexander Westermann, Germany

Jonathan White, UK

Tim Whitehead, USA

Alex Whitworth, UK

John Wiencke, USA

Pam Wiener, UK

Bartek Wilczynski, Poland

Ko  Willems van Dijk, Netherlands

Iain Wilson, Australia

Melissa Wilson Sayres, USA

Patrick Wincker, France

Doug Winton, UK

Elizabeth Winzeler, USA

Olaf Wolkenhauer, Germany

Andrew Wood, UK

Christopher Woods, USA

Naomi Wray, Australia

Greg Wray, USA

Hao Wu, USA

Haoquan Wu, USA

Yannick Wurm, UK

Yi Xing, USA

Jian Xu, USA

Xiangru Xu, Germany

Wen Xue, USA

Rona Yaeger, USA

Takashi Yamamoto, Japan

Jianbing Yan, China

Jun Yan, China

Itai Yanai, USA

Jian Yang, Australia

Hui Yang, China

Christopher Yau, UK

Chengqi Yi, China

Soojin Yi, USA

Kevin Yip, Hong Kong

Kosuke Yoshihara, Japan

Jingjuan Yu, China

Guo-Cheng Yuan, USA

Jiri Zavadil, France

Julia Zeitlinger, USA

Alexander Zelikovsky, USA

Daniel Zerbino, UK

Yanxiao Zhang, USA

Chaolin Zhang, USA

Zemin Zhang, USA

Kun Zhang, USA

Yong Zhang, China

Fangqing Zhao, China

Sheng Zhong, USA

Xiang Zhou, USA

Yaoqi Zhou, Australia

Bing Zhu, China

Aleksey Zimin, USA

Cyril Zipfel, UK

Sebastian Zoellner, USA

Chengheng Zong, USA

Aaron Zorn, USA


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