The following colleagues have made (and continue to do so) substantial contributions or gave us inspirational suggestions that were incorporated into the strategy, design and implementation of StrainInfo:
Mohamed Amar
Laboratoire de Microbiologie et Biologie Moléculaire, Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique et Technique, Morocco
David Ruiz Arahal
Coleccion Española de Cultivos Tipo, Spain
Michael Ashburner
Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK
Christine Campbell
Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Scottish Association for Marine Science, UK
Serge Casaregola
Centre International de Ressources Microbiennes, INRA, France
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Centre for the Philosophy of Law, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Tom Degroote
Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
Philippe Desmeth
Belgian Federal Science Policy, Belgium
Jean Euzéby
International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes, France
Enevold Falsen
Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Sweden
Dawn Field
Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Section, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom
George Garrity
NamesforLife, Michigan State University, USA
Frank Oliver Glöckner
Microbial Genomics Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Tanya Gray
Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics Section, Oxford Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, United Kingdom
Nicole Henry
Belgian Federal Science Policy, Belgium
Ian Jameson
CSIRO Microalgae Research, Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
Danielle Janssens
BCCMTM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, Belgium
Mikah Krichevski
United States Federation of Culture Collections, USA
Frithjof Kuepper
Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, Scottish Association for Marine Science, UK
Nikos Kyrpides
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA
Jose Miguel López-Coronado
Colección Española de Cultivos Tipo, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
Juncai Ma
Information Network Center, Institute for Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Kevin Mc Cluskey
Fungal Genetic Stock Center, School of Biological Sciences, USA
Ed Moore
Culture Collection, University of Göteborg, Sweden
Norman Morrison
School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK
Antti Pesonen
VTT culture collection, Finland
Vincent Robert
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, The Netherlands
Paolo Romano
Bioinformatica e Proteomica Strutturale, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Italy
Mark Segal
Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Jean Swings
Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
Maija-Liisa Suihko
VTT culture collection, Finland
Ken Ichiro Suzuki
NITE Biological Resource Center, Japan
Hideaki Sugawara
Center for Information Biology, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Masako Takashima
Japanese Collection of Microorganisms, RIKEN BioResource Center, Japan
Brian Tindall
Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen, Germany
Paul Uhlir
U.S. National Committee for CODATA, USA
Peter Vandamme
Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
Alexander Vasilenko
All-Russian Collection of Microorganisms, VKM, Russia
Daniel Vaulot
Roscoff Culture Collection, CNRS, France
Claudine Vereecke
BCCMTM/LMG Bacteria Collection, Ghent University, Belgium
John Wilbanks
Science Commons, USA
Anne Willems
Laboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Belgium
Joaquin Sergio Zepeda Hernandez
Colección Nacional de Cepas Microbianas y Cultivos Celulares, Mexico
Xianhua Zhou
Information Network Center, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China