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Nature Immunology’s 20th anniversary is a good opportunity to reminisce about the ImmGen collective endeavor — its goals, successes and horror stories — and the group’s exploration of various modes of scientific publishing.

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Acknowledgements

ImmGen was made possible by its sponsors and supporters, foremost the NIH NIAID, whose grant (R24-AI072073) unflinchingly supported the enterprise, but also by companies in the immunogenomics arena (eBioscience, BioLegend and Qiagen) who understood the goals and helped with collaborative participation in experimental design and discounted reagents. We thank the profiling facilities (Expression Analysis, Broad BTL and Genomics Platforms) for their professionalism and dedication in data generation.

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  1. French National Center for Scientific Research, Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Marseille, France

    Stephanie Vargas Aguilar, Karine Crozat, Marc Dalod, Michael Sieweke & Elena Tomasello

  2. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Oscar Aguilar, Natalie Bezman, Dagmar Gotthardt, Deborah Hendricks, Jessica Jarjoura, Yosuke Kamimura, Charles Kim, Viola Lam, Lewis Lanier, Gundula Min-Oo, Maelig Morvan, Tsukasa Nabekura, Marc Potempa, Avishai Shemesh, Joseph Sun & Yanan Zhu

  3. The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

    Rhys Allan, Tim Johanson, Stephan Nutt & Julie Tellier

  4. Immunology Institute and Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    El Ad David Amir, Julie M. Blander, Milena Bogunovic, Maria Acebes Casanova, Andrew Chow, Aleksey Chudnovskiy, Fiona Desland, Melanie Greter, Daigo Hashimoto, Julie Helft, Juliana Idoyaga, Baosen Jia, Stefan Jordan, Stefan Jordan, Veronica Kana, Ephriam Kenigsberg, Andrew Kent, Joel Kim, Wing-Hong Kwan, Yonit Lavin, Andrew Leader, Marylene Leboeuf, Assaf Magen, Barbara Maier, Miriam Merad, Jennifer Miller, Arthur Mortha, Jeremy Price, Ravi Sachidanandam & Priyanka Sathe

  5. Centre for Life Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Veronique Angeli & Lim Sheau Yng

  6. Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Maxim N. Artyomov, Kyunghee Choi, Marco Colonna, June D’Angelo, Keke Fairfax, Anja Fuchs, Anastasiia Gainullina, Kiwook Kim, Karen Krchma, Jacob Lee, Adelle McFarland, Vincent Peng, Gwendalyn Randolph, Michelle Robinette, Alexey Sergushichev, Peter L. Wang, Jun Wu & Aldrin Yim

  7. Department of Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Natasha Asinovski, Alev Baysoy, Christophe Benoist, Daniela Cipoletta, Alison Cook, Richard Cruse, Scott Davis, Graeme Doran, Ayla Ergun, Jeff Ericson, Eunice Esomonu, Matthieu Giraud, Daniel Gray, Sara Haidermota, Tracy Heng, Jonathan Hill, Gordon Hyatt, Daniel Jepson, Evgeny Kiner, Larry Kozinn, Taras Kreslavsky, Catherine Laplace, Diane Mathis, Michael Mingueneau, Devapregasan Moodley, Adriana Ortiz-Lopez, Henry Paik, Michio Painter, Yiqing Qi, Ricardo Ramirez, Deepshika Ramanan, Andrew Rhoads, Katie Rothamel, Kumba Seddu, Brinda Vijaykumar, Ei Wakamatsu, Liang Yang & Hideyuki Yoshida

  8. Department of Cancer Immunology, Genentech, South San Francisco, CA, USA

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  9. Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

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  10. Center for Cardiovascular Research, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO, USA

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  11. Brown Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

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    Adam Best, Ty Crowl, Tianda Deng, Andrew Doedens, Ananda Goldrath, Jamie Knell, Justin Milner, Quyhn Nguyen, Kayla Omilusik, Sara Quon, Laura Shaw, Edward Yang & Bingfei Yu

  13. Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    David Blair & Michael Dustin

  14. Division of Rheumatology, Inflammation and Immunity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

    Patrick Brennan, Michael Brenner, Nadia Cohen, Edy Kim & Lydia Lynch

  15. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

    Brian Brown, Maxime Dhainaut, Samuel Rose & Aleksandra Wroblewska

  16. Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jason Buenrostro, Francis Kim, Caleb Lareau, Tata Nageswara Rao & Amy Wagers

  17. Department of Biomedical Engineering and Center for Synthetic Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    James J. Collins, James Costello & Hu Li

  18. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Jigar V. Desai & Michail S. Lionakis

  19. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Jiarui Ding, Bo Li, Christoph Muus, Aviv Regev, Chris Smillie & Ayshwarya Subramanian

  20. Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

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  21. Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ivan Dzhagalov

  22. Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Michela Frascoli, Michael Gallagher, Joonsoo Kang, Jisu Lee, Nidhi Malhotra, Kavitha Narayan, Yilin Qi, Nick Spidale & Katelyn Sylvia

  23. Department of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Shani Gal-Oz, Hadas Ner-Gaon & Tal Shay

  24. Faculty of Medicine, National Institute for Health and Medical Research, Paris, France

    Emmanuel Gautier

  25. Immune Disease Institute, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA

    Roi Gazit & Derrick Rossi

  26. Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA

    Sophie Gibbings & Claudia Jakubzick

  27. Department of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

    Ricardo Grieshaber-Bouyer, Paul Monach, Peter A. Nigrovic & Giuseppina Stifano

  28. Laboratory of Immunoregulation, Inflammation Research Centre, VIB Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Martin Guilliams, Charlotte Scott & Helena Todorov

  29. Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Randy Hardy, Yuesheng Li, Susan Shinton & Yan Zhou

  30. Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

    Vladimir Jojic & Daphne Koller

  31. La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Mitchell Kronenberg & Mallory Paynich

  32. Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, INSERM, CNRS, Marseille, France

    Herve Luche & Marie Malissen

  33. Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Alexandra Maslova, Etienne Meunier, Sara Mostafavi, German Novakovsky & Chendi Wang

  34. International Center for Research in Infectious Disease, University of Lyon, Lyon, France

    Helena Paidassi & Sébastien This

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