ISMB 2003 Organizing Committee
Gene Myers, University of California Berkeley (Co-chair)
Mark Ragan, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland (Co-chair)
Kevin Burrage, Advanced Computational Modelling Centre, The University of Queensland
Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, Paris
Terry Gaasterland, The Rockefeller University
Minoru Kanehisa, Japanese Society for Bioinformatics, Kyoto University
Tim Littlejohn, Biolateral Pty Ltd.
John Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Christos Ouzounis, European Bioinformatics Institute
Shoba Ranganathan, Asia-Pacific BioNet, National University of Singapore
David Wishart, University of Alberta

ISMB 2003 Local Organizing Committee
Mark Ragan, Institute for Molecular Biosciene, The University of Queensland (Chair)
Peter Adams, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Tim Bailey, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Jennifer Hallinan, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Edith Hii, University of Queensland
Michelle Madden, Hotelier’s International
Rohan Teasdale, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

ISMB 2003 Program Committee
Gene Myers, University of California Berkeley (Chair)
Area Chairs (area in parentheses):
Phil Bourne, San Diego Super Computer Center, University of California, San Diego
(Databases)
Terry Gaasterland, The Rockefeller University (AC Gene Expression)
Frederique Galisson, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics/University of Lausanne (Protein Function & Evolution)
David Gilbert, City University, London (AI & Linguistics)
Michael Gribskov, San Diego Super Computer Center, University of California, San Diego (Alignments, Motifs, & HMMs)
Gene Myers, University of California, Berkeley (Methods)
Burkhard Rost, Columbia University (Protein Structure & Modelling)
Alfonso Valencia, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (Protein Interactions & Text Analysis)
Ralph Zimmer, Institute for Informatics, University of Munich (Gene Networds & Applications)
Stan Letovsky, Boston University (Networks & Pathways)

Committee Members
Tatsuya Akutsu Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Russ B. Altman Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Sophia Ananiadou University of Salford, Salford, UK
Claus A.F. Andersen Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Timothy Bailey University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Pierre Baldi University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Alex Bateman Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
Amir Ben-Dor Agilent Research Labs, Palo Alto, California, USA
Nir Ben-Tal Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Helen Berman Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Christian Blaschke National Center of Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
Henrik Bostrom Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Alvis Brazma European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Soren Brunak Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Phillip Bucher Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
Rita Casadio University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Belinda Chang Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Phoebe Chen Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Mike Cherry Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
Peter Clote Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA
Richard Copley The Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK
Mark Craven University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Thomas Dandekar University of Wurzburg, Wurzberg, Germany
Yves Deville Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Ian Donaldson University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joaquin Dopazo Spanish National Cancer Center, Madrid, Spain
Roland Dunbrack Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Keith Dunker Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA
Laurent Duret Claude Bernard University, Leon, France
Michael Eisen Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
Arne Elofssen Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Patricia Evans University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Edgardo Ferran Sanofi-Synthelabo, Paris, France
James Fickett AstraZeneca R&D Boston, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Paolo Frasconi University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dimitrij Frishman National Research Center for Environment and Health, Neuherberg, Germany
Dietlind Gerloff University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Jean-Francois Gibrat National Institute for Agronomy Research, Paris, France
Carole Goble University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Adam Godzik The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, California, USA
Jason Goncalves Iobion Informatics, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Roderic Guigo Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain
Manuela Helmer-Citterich University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Jaap Heringa National Institute for Medical Research, London, England
Des Higgins University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
Lynette Hirschman MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
Kay Hofmann Medical Molecular Research Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Christopher Hogue University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Xiaoqiu Huang Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Larry Hunter University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
Curt Jamison George Mason University, Manassas, Virginia, USA
Inge Jonassen University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
Victor Jongeneel Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
Kevin Karplus University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
Janet Kelso South African National Bioinformatics Institute, Bellville, South Africa
Ross King University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
Tony Kusalik University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Richard H. Lathrop University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Doheon Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Sang Yup Lee Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
Thomas Lengauer Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrucken, Germany
Hans-Peter Lenhof University of the Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany
Christina Leslie Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
John Levine University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Michael Linial Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Andrei Lupas Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany
Francois Major University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Heikki Mannila Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
Hanah Margalit Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Debbie Marks Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Boris Mirkin University of London, London, UK
Leonid Mirny Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Satoru Miyano University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Eric Mjolsness University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
T. Murlidharan Nair University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Goran Neshich National Agricultural Information Technology Research Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil
See-Kiong Ng Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Malaysia
Michael Nilges European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
William Noble University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Sean O'Donoghue Lion Bioscience, Heidelberg, Germany
Chris Ouzounis European Bioinformatic Institute, Cambridge, UK
David Page University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Marco Pagni Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
William Pearson University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Dana Pe'er Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Pavel Pevzner University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Tzachi Pilpel Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Jack Pollard 3rd Millennium, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Gianluca Pollastri University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
John Quackenbush The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Aviv Regev Netvision, Israel
Martin Ringwald The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Eduardo Rocha Atelier de BioInformatique-Université Paris VI, Paris, France
Andrey Rzhetsky Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Steven Salzberg The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Vincent Schachter Genoscope, Centre National de Séquençage, Evry, France
Benno Schwikowski Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle, Washington, USA
Joachim Selbig Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
Ron Shamir Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ilya Shindyalov University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
Erik Sonnhammer Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Terry Speed University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
Paul Spellman Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
Robert Stevens University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Chris Stoeckert University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jens Stoye University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Aik Choon Tan University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Yoshio Tateno National Institue of Genetics, Shizuoka, Japan
Anna Tramontano University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Juris Viksna University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Martin Vingron Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
Jason T. L. Wang New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Thomas Werner Genomatix, Inc., Germany
John Westbrook Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Edgar Wingender University of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany
Limsoon Wong Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore
Hannah Xue Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Zohar Yakhini Agilent Research Labs, Tel-Aviv, Israel
An-Suei Yang Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Golan Yona Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
Mohammed Zaki Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA

Gene Myers
ISMB 2003 CO-Chair

Mark Ragan
ISMB 2003 CO-Chair