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Acknowledgements:We thank Ms. Mijung Park, a student in the major of Art and Design from University of Michigan, for her designing the PHIDIAS logo and banner. We thank the authors of publicly available data from different sources (e.g., RefSeq, CDD, Pfam, PubMed, PathInfo, MINet, HazARD, and KEGG). We are grateful to be able to integrate and extend many open-source software programs (e.g., GBrowse and NCBI BLAST) in PHIDIAS. The BBP development team includes Zuoshuang Xiang (webmaster), Wenjie Zheng (previous webmaster), and Dr. Yongqun "Oliver" He. This project is partially supported by the NIH-NIAID R21 grant (#1R21AI057875-01) to Dr. He, and partially supported by Dr. He's Startup Funding from the University of Michigan. We appreciate the encouragement and suggestions provided by Drs. Stephen Boyle, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, and Gerhardt Schurig at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Raju Lathigra at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and Dr. Bruno Sobral at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institure at Virginia Tech. We also thank Dr. Hans-Michael Muller from CalTech for his technical help in our development of Textpresso-powered Brucella literature search engine. Your collaborations, suggestions, and comments are welcome. Please feel free to contact Oliver at |