About Us

VISTA family of tools has been developed and hosted at Genomics Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

This project was supported by the Programs for Genomic Applications grant from the NHLBI/NIH and the Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Office of Science, US Department of Energy.

This work is a collaborative effort of many people.

LBNL group

• Dubchak, Inna - Principal Investigator
• Minovitsky, Simon - Programmer
• Poliakov, Alexander - Lead Programmer
• Ratnere, Igor - Programmer

Collaborators and contributors

UC Berkeley:

• Bray, Nick - the author of AVID, contributed to the development of whole-genome alignment
• Pachter, Lior - The author of AVID, contributed to the development of mVISTA, rVISTA and whole-genome alignment

Stanford:

• Batzoglou, Serafim - multiple whole-genome alignment
• Brudno, Michael - multiple whole-genome alignment

UC Davis:

• Nameeta Shah, Phylo-VISTA

We are grateful to former members of our team for their contributions to the following tools:

• Couronne, Olivier - whole-genome alignment
• Frazer, Kelly - mVISTA
• Klock, Brian - VISTA browser
• Loots, Gabriela - rVISTA
• Mayor, Chris - mVISTA
• Ovcharenko, Ivan - rVISTA, whole-genome alignment
• Prabhakar, Shyam - GUMBY development
• Ryaboy, Dmitriy - VISTA browser, Text Browser
• Schwartz, Jody - mVISTA
• Teplitsky, Michael - VISTA browser

Our thanks to the biologists of Genomics Division (Dario Boffelli, Jim Bristow, Jan-Fang Cheng, Marcelo Nobrega, Len Pennacchio, James Priest, Eddy Rubin, and many others) for their help, support and critical comments.