ISMB Organization

Organizing Committee Thomas Lengauer, GMD–German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany Reinhard Schneider, LION bioscience AG, Heidelberg, Germany Peer Bork, Max Delbrück Centrum Berlin and EMBL Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany Douglas Brutlag, Stanford University, USA Janice Glasgow, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Hans Werner Mewes, Munich Information Centre for Protein Sequences MIPS, Martinsried, Germany Ralf Zimmer, GMD–German National Research Center for Information Technology, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Program Committee Ruben Abagyan, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, New York, NY, USA Tatsuya Akutsu, Human Genome Center, Tokyo, Japan Lloyd Allison, Monash University, Australia Russ Altman, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Stephen Altschul, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD, USA Michael Ashburner, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Bonnie Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Søren Brunak, The Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Barbara Bryant, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA Steve Bryant, National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD, USA Philip Bucher, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Valentina Di Francesco, Celera Genomics Corp., Rockville, MD, USA Sean Eddy, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, USA Dimitrij Frishman, Munich Information Centre for Protein Sequences, Martinsried, Germany Terry Gaasterland, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA Michael Gribskov, San Diego Supercomputer Center, La Jolla, CA, USA David Haussler, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Liisa Holm, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Martin Huynen, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Peter Karp, Pangea Systems, Inc., Oakland, CA, USA Kevin Karplus, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA Toni Kazic, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Teri Klein, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA John Koza, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

vi Alan Lapedes, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA Rick Lathrop, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA Claudine Medigue, Universite Paris VI, Paris, France Gene Myers, Celera Genomics Corp., Rockville, MD, USA Christos Ouzounis, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK Christian Overton, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA Rebecca Parsons, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA Christopher Rawlings, Smithkline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Harlow, UK Burkhard Rost, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University, Rockville, MD, USA David Searls, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, PA, USA Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA Gary Stormo, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA Joel Sussman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel William Taylor, MRC National Institute of Medical Research, London, UK Anna Tramontano, Department of Computational Biology and Chemistry, IRBM, Pomezia, Italy Alfonso Valencia, CNB-Centro Nacional de Biotechnology/CSIC-Spanish Research Council, Madrid, Spain Martin Vingron, DKFZ–German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany Edgar Wingender, GBF–German National Research Center for Biotechnology, Braunschweig, Germany Thomas Wu, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Additional Reviewers Additional reviewing assistance was provided by Pankaj Agarwal, Carolyn Allex, Vineet Bafna, Tom Blackwell, Christian Blaschke, Hidemasa Bono, Michael Brown, Jean-Paul Comet, Jonathan Crabtree, Antonio del Sol, Tom Dix, Brian Dunford Shore, José Mariá Fernández González, Greg Grant, Larry Greller, William Grundy, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Masahiro Hattori, Klaus Heumann, Victor Jongeneel, Andreas Kaps, Holger Karas, Shuichi Kawashima, Steen Knudsen, Anders Krogh, Armin Lahm, Christian Lemmen, Elisabetta Manduchi, Webb Miller, Henrik Nielsen, Juan Carlos Oliveros Collazos, Keun-joon Park, Florencio Pazos, Ken Rice, Eduardo Rocha, Marie-France Sagot, Kiminobu Sato, Alejandro Schaffer, Russell Schwartz, Ron Shamir, John Spouge, Nathan Srebro, Shamil Sunyaev, Dave Ussery, and William Wise.

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