Pankaj Agarwal (GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals) Alberto Apostolico (U. Padova and Purdue U.) Craig Benham (U.C. Davis) Jean-Michel Claverie (CRNS' Institut de Biologie Structurale et Microbiologie, Marseilles) Nir Friedman (Hebrew U.) Olivier Gascuel (U. de Montpellier II and CNRS, Montpellier) Misha Gelfand (IntegratedGenomics, Moscow) Raffaele Giancarlo (U. di Palermo) David Gilbert (City University, Longdo) Roderic Guigo (IMIM, Barcelona, co-chair) Dan Gusfield (U.C. Davis co-chair) Jotun Hein (U. Oxford) Inge Jonassen (U. of Bergen) Giuseppe Lancia (U. Padova) Bernard M.E. Moret (U. New Mexico) Gene Myers (Celera Genomics) Christos Ouzonis (European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton Hall) Lior Pachter (U.C. Berkeley) Knut Reinert (Celera Genomics) Marie-France Sagot (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon) David Sankoff (U. Montreal) Steve Skiena (SUNY, Stony Brook) Gary Stormo (Washington University) Jens Stoye (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Molekulare Genetik) Martin Tompa (U. Washington) Alfonso Valencia (Centro National de Biotecnologia, Madrid) Martin Vingron (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Molekulare Genetik) Lusheng Wang (City University of Hong Kong) Tandy Warnow (U. Texas, Austin)