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Vol. 26 ISMB 2010, pages i2–i6 BIOINFORMATICS doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq246 ISMB 2010 ORGANIZATION PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE CHAIRS Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics Mona Singh, Proceedings Chair, Princeton University, USA Hanah Margalit, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Joel S. Bader, Proceedings Co-Chair, Johns Hopkins University, Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Baltimore, USA Population Genomics Eleazar Eskin, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Eran Halperin, Tel-Aviv University, Israel PROCEEDINGS AREA CHAIRS Protein Interactions and Molecular Networks Bioimaging Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Gene Myers, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Madrid, Spain USA Roded Sharan, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Robert F. Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Protein Structure and Function USA Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Databases and Ontologies USA Alex Bateman, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Suzanna Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, Sequence Analysis USA Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada Disease Models and Epidemiology Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Thomas Lengauer, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Text Mining Saarbruken, Germany Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA Yves Moreau, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Hagit Shatkay, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Evolution and Comparative Genomics Other Bioinformatics Applications Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Philip Bourne, University of California, San Diego, USA Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA Barb Bryant, Constellation Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, USA Cynthia Adams Tanya Berardini Roger Chang Edo Airoldi Bonnie Berger Wendy Chapman Stuart Aitken Sabine Bergler Cedric Chauve Tatsuya Akutsu Andreas Beyer Gal Chechik Mario Albrecht Jadwiga Bienkowska Jeff Christiansen Can Alkan Inanc Birol Michele Clamp Patrick Aloy Mathieu Blanchette Hilary Clark Andre Altmann Christian Blaschke Kevin Cohen Steven Altschuler Christoph Bock Kevin Bretonnel Cohen Claus Andersen Olivier Bodenreider Lenore Cowen Alberto Apostolico Erich Bornberg-Bauer Mark Craven Alan Aronson Philip Bourne Miklos Csuros Kiyoshi Asai Phil Bradley Peter D’Eustachio Terri Attwood Michael Brent Mehmet Dalkilic Manfred Auer Alan Bridge Antoine Danchin Rolf Backofen Yana Bromberg Thomas Dandekar Joel Bader Brian Browning Vincent Danos Ivet Bahar Michael Brudno Gaudenz Danuser Jim Balhoff Barbara Bryant Aaron Darling Nuno Bandeira Jeremy Buhler Colin Dewey Ziv Bar-Joseph Ralf Bundschuh Frank DiMaio Alex Bateman Albert Burger Emily Dimmer Serafim Batzoglou Harmen Bussemaker Francisco Domingues Niko Beerenwinkel Atul Butte Bruce Donald Kimberly Begley Chris Bystroff Joaquin Dopazo Asa Ben-Hur Enrico Capobianco Frank Dudbridge Nir Ben-Tal Rita Casadio Roland Dunbrack © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [13:45 15/5/2010 Bioinformatics-btq246.tex] Page: i2 i2–i6 ISMB 2010 ORGANIZATION Dannie Durand Carl Kingsford Teresa Przytycka Karen Eilbeck Rachel Kolodny Alan Qi Nadia El-Mabrouk Michael Krauthammer Steve Qin Charles Elkan Anthony Kusalik Jörg Rahnenführer Arne Elofsson Kasper Lage Ben Raphael David Emmert Doron Lancet Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann Jason Ernst Song Le Knut Reinert Eleazar Eskin Thomas Lengauer Peter Rice Juan Fernandez-Recio Hans-Peter Lenhof Joel Richardson Lynn Fink Suzanna Lewis Thomas Rindflesch Rob Finn Jing Li Peter Robinson Sarel Fleishman Ming Li Keith Robison Juliane Fluck Jie Liang Kathryn Roeder Lucy Forest Olivier Lichtarge Karl Rohr Dmitrij Frishman XiaoleS. Liu Noah Rosenberg Nicolas Galtier Stefano Lonardi Saharon Rosset Olivier Gevaert Ole Lund Badri Roysam Debra Goldberg Jingchu Luo Patrick Ruch Ilya Goldberg Jacek Majewski Eytan Ruppin Julian Gough Ion Mandoiu Alan Ruttenberg Michael Gromiha B.S. Manjunath Andrey Rzhetsky Dan Gusfeild Hanah Margalit Marie-France Sagot Michelle Gwinn-Giglio Florian Markowetz Cenk Sahinalp Matt Hahn Alice McHardy Denise Scholtens Udo Hahn Aiofe McLysaght Michael Schroeder Turkan Haliloglu Jason Mezey Ora Schueler-Furman Eran Halperin Gos Micklem Russell Schwartz Dan Halperin Satoru Miyano Benno Schwikowski Michael Hawrylycz Sean Mooney Ron Shamir Henning Hermjakob Yves Moreau Roded Sharan Tomer Hertz Alex Morozov Hagit Shatkay Winston Hide Quaid Morris David Shotton David Hill Norman Morrison Solly Sieberts Lynette Hirschman Vince Moulton Istvan Simon Charlie Hodgman Chris Mungall Amit Singer Robert Hoehndorf Robert F. Murphy Mona Singh Ivo Hofacker Chad Myers Saurabh Sinha Liisa Holm Eugene Myers Neil Smallheiser Ian Holmes Kenta Nakai Berend Snel Eurie Hong See-Kiong Ng Larisa Soldatova Doug Howe Cedric Notredame Ingolf Sommer Haiyan Huang John Novembre Yun Song Daniel Huson Yanay Ofran John Spouge Martijn Huynen Uwe Ohler N Srinivasan Trey Ideker Arlindo Oliveira Mike Steel Iuliana Ionita Sandra Orchard Jens Stoye Sorin Istrail Ivan Ovcharenko Korbinian Strimmer Lars Jensen Florencio Pazos Josh Stuart Robert Jernigan Matteo Pellegrini Fengzhu Sun Tao Jiang Hanchuan Peng Edward Susko Steven Jones Bengt Persson Jason Swedlow Jeesun Jung Itsik Pe’er Amos Tanay Igor Jurisica Ron Pinter Haixu Tang Tamer Kahveci Julia Ponomarenko Hua Tang Hyun Min Kang Sylvain Poux Glen Tesler Tommy Kaplan Prevost Maya Topf Rachel Karchin Alkes Price Silvio Tosatto John Kececioglu Andreas Prlic Anna Tramontano Warren Kibbe Natasa Przulj Koji Tsuda i3 [13:45 15/5/2010 Bioinformatics-btq246.tex] Page: i3 i2–i6 ISMB 2010 ORGANIZATION Junichi Tsujii Jian Wang Wei Wu Greg Tucker-Kellogg Wyeth Wasserman Yufeng Wu Esko Ukkonen Louis Wehenkel Lei Xie Alfonso Valencia Tao Wei Li Xie Gabriel Valiente Bertram Weiss Eric Xing Kimberly van Auken Simon Whelan Jinbo Xu Kristel Van Steen John Wilbur Zohar Yakhini Roel Verhaak Yuri Wolf Esti Yeger-Lotem Karin Verspoor Haim Wolfson Hong Yu Jean-Philippe Vert Limsoon Wong Alex Zelikovsky Allegra Via Stephen Wong Michael Zhang Martin Vingron Valerie Wood Yang Zhang Christine Voisey Chris Workman Hongyu Zhao Jerome Waldispuhl Jonathan Wren Jasmine Zhou Michael Walker Lani Wu Etay Ziv PROCEEDINGS–SUB REVIEWERS Steven Altschuler Todd A. Gibson Chun-Chi Liu Ashish Anand Anthony Gitter Tien-ho Lu Iris Antes Jonathan Goeke Weijun Luo Irina Astrovskaya Valer Gotea William Majoros Chris Bailey-Kellog Assaf Gottlieb Albertoj Martin Sourav Bandyopadhyay Alexander Gusev Peter Martus Ronen Basri Iman Hajirasouliha Gabriele Mayr Tomer Benyamini Gregory Hannum Clifford Meyer Chris Bielow Dan Halperin Istvan Miklos Jadwiga Bienkowska David Hardoon Mathias Möhl Hagen Blankenburg Brian Haynes Roberto Mosca Alexander Bockmayr Ian Holmes Sara Mostafavi Marilia Braga Fereydoun Hormozdairi Sakarya Onur Dima Brinza Benjamin Horstman Roland Pache Yixuan Chen David Hoyle Pier Palamara Han-Yu Chuang Vignesh Jagadeesh Arun-Prasad Pandurangan Tim Conrad Aruna Jammalamadaka Panagiotis Papasaikas Federico De Masi Paul Jenkins Uta Pape Ke Deng Ci-Ren Jiang Snehit Prabhu Minghua Deng Tejal Joshi Iulian Pruteanu Frank DiMaio Lars Juhl Jensen Sebastian Radestock Gabriel Dissard Boyko Kakaradov Fidel Ramirez Bruce Donald Emre Karakoc Mina Rho Bas E. Dutilh Kamil Khatizov Frank Rügheimer Janusz Dutkowski Patrick Kunpfer Alexander Rurainski Paul Edlefsen Pradeep Koulgi Raheleh Salari Karen Eibeck Michael Kuhn Josue Samayoa Dorothea Emig Iman Hajirasouliha Emre Sargin Peter L. Erdos Fumei Lam Sven-Eric Schelhorn Dmitry Fedorov Sita Lange Roland Schwarz Cristina Fenollar-Ferrer Julia Lasserre Akdes Serin Enrico Ferraro Seunghak Lee Itai Sharon Fabrizio Ferre Hyunju Lee Yoel Shkolnisk Gaston Fiore Jinguyi Li Juliane Siebourg Ori Folger Yue Lie Weronika Sikora-Wohlfeld Ari Frank Xin Li Omer Sinan Sarak Suzanne Gallagher Yong Li Israel Steinfeld Irit Gat-Viks Wenyaun Li Leila Taher Stoyan Georgiev Thomas Lingner Ming-Chi Tsai Pratim Gosh Tao Liu Charalampos Tsourakakis i4 [13:45 15/5/2010 Bioinformatics-btq246.tex] Page: i4 i2–i6 ISMB 2010 ORGANIZATION Zhidong Tu Minzhu Xie Andreas Zanzoni Thomas Wächter Dong Xu Mikhail Zaslavskiy Wei-Bung Wang Vladimir Yanovsky Jianyang Zeng Xin Wang Deniz Yorukoglu Shihua Zhang Roland Wittler Yinyin Yuan Lior Wolf Noah Zaitlen ISMB 2010 ORGANIZATION CONFERENCE CHAIRS HIGHLIGHTS COMMITTEE Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, USA Burkhard Rost, Committee Chair, TU Munich, Germany and Michal Linial, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Columbia University, New York, USA Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Reinhard Schneider, Committee Co-Chair, European Molecular USA Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany Nir Ben-Tal, Tel-Aviv University, Israel Eric Bongcam-Rudloff, Uppsala University, Sweden STEERING COMMITTEE Terry Gaasterland, University of California, San Diego, USA Ivo Hofacker, University of Vienna, Austria Burkhard Rost, Steering Committee Chair and Highlights Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego, USA Committee Chair, TU Munich, Germany and Columbia Toni Kazic, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA University, New York, USA Janet Kelso, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary
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