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Acknowledgments<br />

I would like to express a deep gratitude to my supervisor Prof. David Ussery for his support<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g my Ph.D. project. It has been a great pleasure to work with him dur<strong>in</strong>g my time<br />

at <strong>CBS</strong> <strong>and</strong> I will miss the time of organiz<strong>in</strong>g workshops <strong>and</strong> prepar<strong>in</strong>g for conferences.<br />

A thanks to Prof. <strong>and</strong> center director Søren Brunak for creat<strong>in</strong>g a unique <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>spir<strong>in</strong>g<br />

environment at <strong>CBS</strong> which enabled this project.<br />

I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to Craig <strong>and</strong> Marcia Benham for the<br />

<strong>in</strong>cribile hospitality <strong>and</strong> openness towards our family dur<strong>in</strong>g my research visit at University<br />

of California, Davis <strong>in</strong> 2007.<br />

I would like to thank a great collegue <strong>and</strong> friend of m<strong>in</strong>e, Tim T. B<strong>in</strong>newies, for support<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g conferences, manuscript preperations <strong>and</strong> our daily colaborations - it has been a<br />

pleasure to work with Tim. A thanks to Kar<strong>in</strong> Lagesen for great research collaboration<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g the development of RNAmmer <strong>and</strong> Hanni Willenbrock for great collaboration <strong>and</strong><br />

for driv<strong>in</strong>g numerous publications. I would also like thank all the people I worked with<br />

dur<strong>in</strong>g the development of the ENCODE pipel<strong>in</strong>e, Ramneek Gupta, Thomas Blicher,<br />

Haakan Svensson, Henrik Nielsen, Rasmus Wernersson, Morten Bo Johansen <strong>and</strong> Eleonora<br />

Kulberkyte.<br />

A special thanks to Hans-Henrik Stærfeldt for valuable feedback <strong>and</strong> all the <strong>in</strong>spir<strong>in</strong>g<br />

<strong>and</strong> productive sessions of f<strong>in</strong>aliz<strong>in</strong>g GeneWiz Browser <strong>and</strong> compos<strong>in</strong>g web services software.<br />

A special thanks to Kristoffer Rapacki for be<strong>in</strong>g a great travel companion, for always<br />

f<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g solutions, <strong>and</strong> for the many fruitfull discussions we have had - I hope there will be<br />

more. I would like to thank the numerous people with whom I have had the pleasure of<br />

work<strong>in</strong>g with, dur<strong>in</strong>g research projects <strong>and</strong> courses.<br />

Former center adm<strong>in</strong>istrators Johanne Keid<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> Anne Christensen, current center<br />

adm<strong>in</strong>istrator Dorthe Kjærsgaard, Lone Boesen <strong>and</strong> Malene Beck for your extrod<strong>in</strong>ary<br />

efforts of mak<strong>in</strong>g the <strong>CBS</strong> eng<strong>in</strong>e runn<strong>in</strong>g efficient. Lone Boesen deserves special praise<br />

for smoothly arrang<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> h<strong>and</strong>l<strong>in</strong>g travel details for my many trips abroad, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

five cont<strong>in</strong>ents.<br />

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