Tingting Zhu1, Karin Deal1, Armond Murray1, Sonny Van1, Thanh Cao Ngo1, Shuyang Liu1, Juan Rodriguez1, Hai Long1, Zhenzhong Wang1, Lichan Xiao1, Patrick McGuire1, Naxin Huo1, Luis Curiel1, Luxia Yuan1, Yi Wang1, Shuhong Ouyang1, Yong Liang1, Yong Q. Gu2, Olin Anderson2, Daniela Puiu3, Geo Pertea3, Steven Salzberg3, Aleksey Zimin4, Hao Wang5, Katrien M. Devos6, Jeffrey Bennetzen5, Karl Kugler7, Klaus Mayer7, Thomas Wicker8, Qixin Sun9, Zhiyong Liu9, Long Mao10, Zhengqiang Ma11, Ming-Cheng Luo12 and Jan Dvorak1, (1)Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, (2)Western Regional Research Center, USDA/ARS, Albany, CA, (3)Center for Computational Biology, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, (4)Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, (5)Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (6)Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences, Dept. of Plant Biology, and Institute of Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Genomics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (7)Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany, (8)University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (9)China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, (10)Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China, (11)Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China, (12)Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA