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Contributing reviewers The editors of BMC Bioinformatics would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed their time to the journal in Volume 14 (2013).

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Jun Zhou Zhi Zhou Mark Ziemannn Australia USA Australia Peng Zhou Dajiang Zhu Or Zuk China USA USA Qing Zhou Hongjian Zhu Markus Zweckstetter USA USA Germany Yaoqi Zhou Piotr Zielenkiewicz USA Poland doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-67 Cite this article as: Pala: Reviewer acknowledgement 2013. BMC Bioinformatics 2014 15:67.