Ecoref was brought to you by:

• Marco Galardini (marco.galardini AT twincore.de)
• Pedro Beltrao (pbeltrao AT ebi.ac.uk)
• Nassos Typas (typas AT embl.de)

With the invaluable help of:

• Carmen Lucia Herrera
• Alexandra Koumoutsi
• Anja Telzerow
• Juan Antonio Cordero Varela
• Morgane Wartel
• And all the members of the Beltrao and Typas groups

Acknowledgements

We are extremely grateful to the people who kindly provided the strains that are part of Ecoref (in alphabetical order, font-size proportional to number of strains contributed)

• Alfredo G. Torres (University of Texas Medical Branch)
• Catharina Svanborg (Lund University)
• David Clarke (University College Cork)
• Erick Denamur (IAME-INSERM)
• Ewa Bok and Pawel Pusz (Zielona Góra University)
• Isabel Gordo and Lilia Perfeito (Insituto Gulbenkian de Ciência)
• Jorg Weinreich and Peter Schierack (Brandenburg University of Technology)
• KC Huang (Stanford University)
• Lisa Nolan (Iowa State University)
• Mark Goulian (University of Pennsylvania)
• Mathew Upton (Plymouth University)
• Olin Silander (Massey University)
• Richard Lenski (Michigan State University)
• Scott Hultgren (Washington University St. Louis)
• Wanderley Dias da Silveira (Campinas University)

We also would like to thank the following strains collections

• ECOR
• BEI resources
• DSMZ
• JCM

Please refer to the strains table for the relevant publications