The development of CRdata.org was supported in part by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Exploratory Program in Systems Biology (R33) via grant number HL089102 to Hamid Bolouri, Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology (link to project web site).

CRdata was conceived by Hamid Bolouri and developed by Michael Angerman and Rajiv Dulepet with code contributions by SparkTech Software, and Bioconductor contributions by Dr. Martin Morgan of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.