TopHat authors Primary contact Cole Trapnell wrote TopHat. TopHat is built on Bowtie, which was written by Ben Langmead and Cole Trapnell. Daehwan Kim and Geo Pertea added support for SOLiD reads, Bowtie 2 and other features and improvements. The SeqAn-1.2 library is used in TopHat and Bowtie and some of its sources are included in TopHat source releases; its authors are Andreas Doring, David Weese, Tobias Rausch, and Knut Reinert. Websites: TopHat: http://tophat.cbcb.umd.edu Bowtie: http://bowtie-bio.sf.net SeqAn: http://www.seqan.de October 2010