Content of review 1, reviewed on December 08, 2014

The files deposited in GigaDB are used in the Avian Phylogenomics Project and associated with the phylogenomics paper in Science (in press) by E.D. Jarvis et al. 2014. All the data files referred in the Data Note are presented, organized and stored in GigaDB servers and provide helpful resources in further studies of Avian phylogenomics and related areas.

The manuscript provided valuable descriptive information on how the datasets were handled and partitioned, including scripts used to process the data, for analyses performed in Jarvis et al. 2014.

There are some minor discretionary issues that would help to improve the manuscript.

1) Please delete the comma in: “A well annotated data set across species, based on genome synteny”

2) Paragraph “Exon loci alignments”. Please clarify where the list is provided (i.e directory: FASTA_files_of_loci_datasets; file: /8295_Exons/42-exon-genes-removed.txt)

3) Reference 16 has a spelling mistake and it is incomplete. It should be: Little, D. P, 2xread: a simple indel coding tool. Program distributed by the author http://www.nybg.org/files/scientists/2xread.html (2005)

Level of interest An exceptional article Quality of written English Acceptable Statistical review No, the manuscript does not need to be seen by a statistician. Declaration of competing interests I declare that I have no competing interests

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    D., J. E., Siavash, M., J., A. A., Bo, L., Peter, H., Cai, L., W., H. S. Y., C., F. B., Benoit, N., T., H. J., Alexander, S., C., W. C., R., d. F. R., Alonzo, A., Nitish, N., Liang, L., Dave, B., Hans, E., V., E. S., Alexandros, S., P., M. D., Joel, C., L., B. E., Tandy, W., Wang, J., Pius, G. M. T., Guojie, Z. 2015. Phylogenomic analyses data of the avian phylogenomics project. GigaScience.