ISMB-97 Organization ORGANIZING COMMITTEE DesHiggins, University College, Cork, Ireland Terry Gaasterland, ArgonneNational Laboratory and Rick Lathrop,University of California, Irvine, USA Departmentof ComputerScience, University of Chicago, USA Thomas Lengauer, GMD-SCAI,Germany Peter Karp, AI Center, SRI International and Section on ClaudineMedigue, Curie Institute, France MedicalInformatics, Stanford University, USA Aleksandar Milosavljevic, CuraGenCorporation, USA Satoru Miyano,University of Tokyo, Japan KevinKarplus, ComputerEngineering, University of Christine Orengo,University College, London, California, Santa Cruz, USA United Kingdom Christos Ouzounis, EMBLEuropean Bioinformatics Institute, Chris Overton, University of Pennsylvania, USA United Kingdom Chris Sander, EMBLHeidelberg, Germanyand EMBL Chris Rawlings, SmithKline Beecham, United Kingdom EuropeanBioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom Otto Ritter, DKFZHeidelberg, Germany Burkhard Rost, EMBL,Germany AlfonsoValencia, Centro National de Biotechnologia- CSIC, Spain Steven Salzberg, Johns HopkinsUniversity, USA David Searls, SmithKline Beecham,USA Jude Shavlik, University of Wisconsin, USA ManfredSippl, University of Salzburg, Austria David States, WashingtonUniversity, USA Gary Stormo, University of Colorado, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Joel Sussman,Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA Russ Altman, Stanford University, USA and WeizmannInstitute, Israel KiyoshiAsai, ElectrotechnicalLaboratory, Japan Willie Taylor, NationalInstitute for MedicalResearch, Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridgeand EMBL-EBL United Kingdom United Kingdom Anna Tramontano, 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,Vineet Bafna, 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 ix .. ............... ... ................. ................... .................... .................. ..............................