AAtDB owes much of its success not only to the excellence of its software, but also to the diligence and vision of Mike Cherry and Sam Cartinhour who served as curators when the database was being developed. The current curator is John Morris, and the project is ably served by Mary Anderson, Director of Nottingham Stock Centre, who acts as Coordinator for the Stocks information. AAtDB has developed at Massachusetts General Hospital under the guidance of Howard Goodman.

This guide was originally written by Sam Cartinhour, J. Michael Cherry and Howard M. Goodman. It has been updated and revised for the World Wide Web by John Morris.

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions made by volunteers who have examined several versions of this manual and suggested improvements. We particularly thank John McCarthy of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Brenda Shirley and Jane Glazebrook, both in the Department of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts General Hospital, for their detailed reviews. Lorrie LeJeune of The MIT Press provided valuable help with layout and design. Finally, very special thanks go to Elliot Meyerowitz, Brian Hauge, Mary Anderson, Maarten Koornneef, and Piet Stam for their unpublished results and assistance in making the information in AAtDB much more complete.

The ACeDB software was created and is copyrighted by Drs. Richard Durbin (MRC, United Kingdom) and Jean Thierry-Mieg (CNRS, France). Unix is a trademark of Novel. SPARCstation is a trademark of Sun Microsystems Incorporated. Macintosh is a trademark of Apple Computer Corporation.

The AAtDB project is funded by the U. S. Department of Agriculture Plant Genome Research Program through a contract from the National Agricultural Library to Professor Howard M. Goodman's laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

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