Professor Mark Pallen: xBASE Project Primary Investigator. Mark has overall responsibility for the xBASE project.
Dr Nick Loman: Bioinformatician. Nick and Mihail have day-to-day responsibility for the support and development of the xBASE project.
Dr Mihail Halachev: Bioinformatician
Professor Charles Penn: Additional Project Management
If you use xBASE in your work, please cite:
xBASE2: a comprehensive resource for comparative bacterial genomics.
Chaudhuri RR, Loman NJ, Snyder LA, Bailey CM, Stekel DJ, Pallen MJ.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2008 Jan;36(Database issue):D543-6. Epub 2007 Nov 5.PMID: 17984072
We are very grateful to the BBSRC for funding xBASE until 2012.
Roy Chaudhuri. Roy was the original developer of coliBASE.
Dov Stekel. Dov was the original co-applicant on the xBASE grant and has sinced moved to the University of Nottingham.
Lori Snyder. Lori worked as a bioinformatician on the xBASE project between 2007 and 2009.
Chris Bailey. Chris was responsible for setting up some of the original server hardware which powers xBASE.
We are very grateful to the xBASE steering group who comprise:
xBASE uses a large number of externally developed tools, services and databases. We are particularly reliant and grateful to the following projects: