Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Paola Bonizzoni, Università di Milano-Bicocca Alessandra Carbone, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Benny Chor, Tel-Aviv Univ Daniel Doerr, Bielefeld University Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University Anna Gambin, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw University Niina Haiminen, IBM Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell University Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Gunnar W. Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Harri Lähdesmäki, Aalto University Timo Lassmann, Telethon Kids Yu Lin, Australian National University Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University Bernard Moret, EPFL Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Laxmi Parida, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, co-chair Robert Patro, Stony Brook Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen, Aarhus University Solon Pissis, King's College London Cinzia Pizzi, Univ Padova Alex Pothen, Purdue Univ Teresa Przytycka, NIH Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen Knut Reinert, FU Berlin Eric Rivals, CNRS & Univ Montpellier Simona Rombo, Univ Palermo Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble Rhône-Alpes and Univ de Lyon 1 Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University Mikaël Salson, Université Lille 1 Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Marcel Schulz, Saarland University Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University Kana Shimizu, Waseda University Rahul Siddharthan, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai Alexandros Stamatakis, Heidelberg Instit. for Theoretical Studies Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Hélène Touzet, University of Lille and INRIA Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, co-chair Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yufeng Wu, Univ Connecticut Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Shaojie Zhang, University of Central Florida Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev