ISMB-97 Organization

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE DesHiggins, University College, Cork, Ireland , ArgonneNational Laboratory and Rick Lathrop,University of California, Irvine, USA Departmentof ComputerScience, University of Chicago, USA , GMD-SCAI,Germany , AI Center, SRI International and Section on ClaudineMedigue, Curie Institute, France MedicalInformatics, Stanford University, USA Aleksandar Milosavljevic, CuraGenCorporation, USA ,University of Tokyo, Japan KevinKarplus, ComputerEngineering, University of ,University College, London, California, Santa Cruz, USA Christos Ouzounis, EMBLEuropean Institute, Chris Overton, University of Pennsylvania, USA United Kingdom , EMBLHeidelberg, Germanyand EMBL Chris Rawlings, SmithKline Beecham, United Kingdom EuropeanBioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Otto Ritter, DKFZHeidelberg, Germany , EMBL,Germany AlfonsoValencia, Centro National de Biotechnologia- CSIC, Spain , Johns HopkinsUniversity, USA David Searls, SmithKline Beecham,USA Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, USA ManfredSippl, University of Salzburg, Austria David States, WashingtonUniversity, USA , University of Colorado, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joel Sussman,Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA , Stanford University, USA and WeizmannInstitute, Israel KiyoshiAsai, ElectrotechnicalLaboratory, Japan Willie Taylor, NationalInstitute for MedicalResearch, , University of Cambridgeand EMBL-EBL United Kingdom United Kingdom , IRBM, Italy MarkBorodovsky, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Soren Brunak,Centre for Biological SequenceAnalysis, Denmark DouglasBruflag, Stanford University, USA Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, USA Dominic Clark, Glaxo Wellcome PLC, United Kingdom ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS AntoineDanchin, Pasteur Institute, France Trevor Dix, MonashUniversity, Australia Additional reviewing assistance was provided by Lloyd Alli- son, T. Akutsu,, HenrikBohr, Alvis Brazma,Mdissa Jacquelyn Fetrow, University atAlbany, USA Cline, DavidL. Dowe,Vicente Escalier, RichardFerrante, David TomFlores, EMBLEuropean Bioinformatics Institute, Ficenec,James Fickett, Leslie Grate, I. Hansen,I. Hein, A.S. Ko- United Kingdom laskar, DaweiLin, A. Lukashin, O. Maruyama,S. Miyano,Craig BobFutrelle, Northeastern University, USA Nevi]l-Manning,Jan Pedersen, EduardoRocha, Scott Schmidler, Warren Gish, WashingtonUniversity’, USA Jeanette Schmidt,A. Shinohara,T. Shoudai,Amit Pal Singh, Evan Janice Glasgow,Queens University, Canada W. Steeg, YutakaUeno, and ThomasWu. Nathan Goodman,Jackson Laboratory, USA DavidHaussler, University’ qf California, Santa Cruz, USA

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