The initial development of SLIF was supported by grant 017396 from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Tobacco Settlement Fund. Further development is supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01 GM078622, and interfacing between SLIF and the National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics is supported by grant U54 DA021519.
Papers from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) were obtained with the generous permission of Bruce Alberts and Ken Fulton of the National Academy of Sciences and with the kind assistance of David Lipman and his group at the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
The current SLIF team includes Robert F. Murphy, William Cohen, Eric Xing, Juchang Hua, Zhenzhen Kou, Quinten Mercer and Yuntao Qian. Past contributors include Meel Velliste, Gregory Porreca, Richard Wang, Matt Joffe and Orhan Ayasli.