Pankaj Kumar Agarwal, Duke Univ. Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan Univ. Alberto Apostolico, Purdue Univ. Gary Benson, MSSN, New York Alvis Brazma, EMBL-EBI, UK Olivier Gascuel, LIRMM, Montpelier Raffaele Giancarlo, Univ. of Palermo David Gilbert, Univ. of Glasgow Jan Gorodkin, KVL, Denmark Roderic Guigo, Univ. Pompeu Fabra Jacques van Helden, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles Daniel Huson, Univ. of Tubingen Gregory Kucherov, Loria, France Nadia El-Mabrouk, Univ. of Montreal Inge Jonassen, Univ. of Bergen (Co-chair) Junhyong Kim, Univ. of Pennsylvania (Co-chair) Jens Lagergren, KTH, Sweden Gad M. Landau, Univ. of Haifa Thierry Lecroq, Univ. de Rouen Bernard Moret, Univ. of New Mexico Vincent Moulton, Univ. of Uppsala Roderic D. M. Page, Univ. of Glasgow David Sankoff, Univ. of Ottawa Joao Carlos Setubal, Virginia Polytch Inst Jens Stoye, Univ. of Bielefeld Esko Ukkonen, Univ. of Helsinki Lisa Vawter, Aventis Inc., USA Jaak Vilo, Egeen Inc., Estonia Alfonso Valencia, CNB-CSIC, Spain Martin Vingron, Max Planck Inst, Berlin Tandy Warnow, Univ. of Texas Peter S. White, Univ of Pennsylvania Louxin Zhang, National Univ. of Singapore