Copyedited by: GS MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY: ECCB Vol. 28 ECCB 2012, pages i306–i310 BIOINFORMATICS doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts418 ECCB 2012 Organization CONFERENCE CHAIR Niko Beerenwinkel, SIB and ETHZ, Basel, Torsten Schwede, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss Switzerland Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland D. Databases, Ontologies, and Text Mining CONFERENCE CO-CHAIR Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Dagmar Iber, ETHZ & SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain Basel, Switzerland Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Torsten Schwede, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss E. Evolution, Phylogeny, and Comparative Genomics Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Katja Jenni, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switzerland Nicolas Galtier, CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, France Rita Manohar, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switzerland Marc Robinson-Rechavi, University of Lausanne & SIB, Sarah Güthe, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss Institute Switzerland of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Yvonne Steger, Biozentrum Universität Basel, Switzerland F. Macromolecular Structure, Dynamics, and Function Lorenza Bordoli, Biozentrum Universität Basel & SIB Swiss Anna Tramontano, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy Institute of Bioinformatics, Basel, Switzerland Torsten Schwede, SIB & Biozentrum, University of Basel, Irene Perovsek, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland Switzerland Jocelyne Bocquet, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, G. Mutations, Variations, and Population Genomics Lausanne, Switzerland Melissa Davis, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Sven Bergmann, University of Lausanne & SIB, Switzerland Switzerland Richard Durbin, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK Ron Appel, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland H. Protein Interactions, Molecular Networks, and Proteomics STEERING COMMITTEE Rob Russel, University of Heidelberg, Germany Anna Tramontano (chair), University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy Christian von Mering, University of Zurich & SIB, Switzerland Janet Thornton, EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, UK Michal Linial, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel I. Regulation, Pathways, and Systems Biology Ron Appel, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Thomas Höfer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Oncologicas, Madrid, Spain Heidelberg, Germany Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium Fabian Theis, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany J. Sequencing and Sequence Analysis Martin Vingron, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, PROGRAMME COMMITTEE—AREA CHAIRS Berlin, Germany Gaston Gonnet, ETH Zürich & SIB, Switzerland A. Applied and Translational Bioinformatics Julio Saez-Rodriguez, European Bioinformatics Institute K. Technology and Software (TechTrack) (EMBL-EBI) Jacques Rougemont, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland Ioannis Xenarios, University of Lausanne & SIB, Switzerland Gert Vriend, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, B. Bioimaging, Spatial-temporal Modeling, and Data Nijmegen, The Netherlands Visualization L. Workshops and Tutorials Sean O’Donoghue, CSIRO & Garvan Inst., Australia Dagmar Iber, ETHZ & SIB, Basel, Switzerland Frederique Lisacek, SIB and University of Geneva, Switzerland C. Bioinformatics of Health and Disease, Biomarkers, M. Poster Chair and Personalized Medicine Michael Stadler, Poster chair, SIB & FMI Friedrich Miescher Yves Moreau, University of Leuven, Belgium Institut, Basel, Switzerland © The Author(s) 2012. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. [15:06 6/8/2012 Bioinformatics-bts418.tex] Page: i306 i306–i310 Copyedited by: GS MANUSCRIPT CATEGORY: ECCB ECCB 2012 Organization PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS Mohamed Abouelhoda Lachlan Coin Stefan Haas Jan Aerts Nigel Collier Dieter Heermann Pankaj Agarwal Attila Csikasz-Nagy Manuela Helmer-Citterich Christian Ahrens Antoine Danchin Jean-Karim Heriche Mario Albrecht Thomas Dandekar Jaap Heringa Patrick Aloy Vincent Daubin Henning Hermjakob Gregoire Altan-Bonnet Hidde de Jong Ryan Hernandez Andre Altmann Xavier De La Cruz Carl Herrmann Inka Appel Renee de Menezes Ralf Herwig Kazuharu Arakawa Renee de Menezes Des Higgins Saul Ares Dick de Ridder Michael Hiller Susanna Assunto-Sansone Jeroen de Ridder Robert Hoehndorf Philip Awadalla Charlotte Deane Ivo Hofacker Francisco Azuaje Mauro Delorenzi Daniel Hoffmann Rolf Backofen Emmanouil Dermitzakis Steve Hoffmann Ruth Baker Christophe Dessimoz Liisa Holm Pedro Ballester Diego Di Bernardo Frank Holstege Matteo Barberis Andreas Doncic 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