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The Foundry is receiving ad hoc funding under the BISC Gen e Ontology Consortium, MGED, NCBO and RNA Ontology grants. We are grateful to all of these sources, and also to the ACGT Project of the European Union and to the Humboldt and Volkswagen Foundations.

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1. Department of Philosophy and New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, 14203, New York, USA
   Barry Smith
2. Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK
   Michael Ashburner
3. Department of Biological Structure, Box 357420, University of Washington, Seattle, 98195, Washington, USA
   Cornelius Rosse
4. Department of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, 1 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ, Scotland, UK
   Jonathan Bard
5. Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine, 2900 Queen Lane, Philadelphia, 19129, Pennsylvania, USA
   William Bug
6. Department of Psychiatry and New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, 14203, New York, USA
   Werner Ceusters
7. Department of Oral Biology and New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, 701 Ellicott Street, Buffalo, 14203, New York, USA
   Louis J Goldberg
8. Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah, 15 North 2030 East, Salt Lake City, 84112, Utah, USA
   Karen Eilbeck
9. European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, Cambridge, UK
   Amelia Ireland, Philippe Rocca-Serra & Susanna-Assunta Sansone
10. Life Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA
    Christopher J Mungall & Suzanna Lewis
11. Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green State University, 212 Physical Sciences Laboratory Building, 1001 East Wooster Street, Bowling Green, 43403, Ohio, USA
    Neocles Leontis
12. Science Commons, c/o Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Building 32-386D, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, 02139, Massachusetts, USA
    Alan Ruttenberg
13. Department of Pathology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, 75390, Texas, USA
    Richard H Scheuermann
14. Stanford Medical Informatics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 251 Campus Drive, Stanford, 94305, California, USA
    Nigam Shah
15. Center for Bioinformatics and Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA
    Patricia L Whetzel

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Smith, B., Ashburner, M., Rosse, C. et al. The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration.Nat Biotechnol 25, 1251–1255 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1346

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