Drs. Syed Hashsham, Eric Petrovskis, Minna Laine and Frank Löffler and the laboratories of Drs. Jim Tiedje, Tom Schmidt and John Breznak for their critques and invaluable suggestions during the development of the database prototype,

Drs. Harry Beller, Nick Coleman, Natsuko Hamamura, Alasdair Cook, Minna Laine, Andrew Laurie, Anna Maria Solanas Canovas, Ron Crawford Thomas Moorman, Mr. James Swezey, Mr. Hector Ayala and Mr. Jorge Rodrigues for their data contributions,

Mr. Chuck Parker for computer and server assistance and Ms. Jamie Vanderwal for help with data processing.

We would especially like to thank Larry Wackett, Lynda Ellis and Doug Hershberger, our UM-BBD collaborators, for their advice and enthusiastic support of our project.

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