Acknowledgement

We warmly thank:

• Jean Racine (1639-1699) who wrote the following tercet (which we found to be appropriate for the Internet):

  Son amitié pour moi le rend ingénieux
  Absent Je le consulte, et ses réponses sages
  Pour venir jusqu'à moi trouvent mille passages.
  ESTHER acte I, scene I (1689)
  
  His friendship for me makes him clever
  While he is away I consult him, and his wise answers
  To reach me, find thousand paths.
  

• Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) who wrote a fictitious taxonomy of animals from an ancient Chinese encyclopaedia "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge" (which we found clearly fit with the state of shambles which some users can feel when connecting to the ESTHER database)

  pertenecientes al Emperador	those belonging to the Emperor
  embalsamados	embalmed ones
  amaestrados	trained ones
  lechones	suckling pigs
  sirenas	mermaids (or sirens)
  fabulosos	fabled ones
  perros sueltos	stray dogs
  incluidos en esta clasificación	those included in this classification
  que se agitan como locos	those that tremble as if they were mad
  innumerables	innumerable ones
  dibujados con un pincel finísimo de pelo de camello	those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
  etcétera	et cetera
  que acaban de romper el jarrón	those that have just broken the vase
  que de lejos parecen moscas	those that from afar look like flies

  "El idioma analítico de John Wilkins", La Nación (in Spanish), Argentina, 8 February 1942

• Florence Corpet, Jerome Gouzy and Daniel Kahn - from PRODOM INRA Toulouse - for sharing the DisplayFam: Protein Family Viewer, and Multalign program with us.
• Keith Bradnam - the UK CropNet webmaster and Arabidopsis Genome Resource developer - who helped us customize Perl scripts.
• Alan Robinson, who kindly provided us with Java codes for the Mutation viewer application and kept helping us for its implementation for ESTHER.
• Lincoln Stein - the author of the Perl Ace browser - who helped us adapt it to ESTHER.
• Jean Thierry-Mieg and Richard Durbin - the writers of the ACeDB database system - who, along with Danielle Thierry-Mieg, intensely helped us build the ESTHER Database.
• The current ACeDB and WormBase Teams, who also helped us with ACeDB updates.>
• Hervé Recipon (National Institute for Biological Information) for adaptation of the BLAST page and program.
• The curators of the GenBank, EMBL and Swiss-Prot databases, and the creators of many WWW servers which we used for ESTHER.

  And also:

•  Avigdor Shafferman (Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness-Ziona, IL), who made the initial Mutation Table available to us
• Kurt Giles (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, IL), who carefully proofread all the data introduced in the early times of the server.
• Mary K. Gentry and Bhupendra P. Doctor (WRAIR, Silver Spring, MD), who provided ESTHER with a carefully built alignment of a large set of sequences.
• Anne Molgaard (U. Copenhagen, DK), Zoran Radic (UCSD, La Jolla, CA), Charles Millard (Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot, IL), Zygmunt Derewenda (U. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA), who reported errors or discrepancies in the structure pages and helped correct them.

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