| Timothy Aitman | Imperial College London, UK |
| Adam Arkin | Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, USA |
| Peer Bork | European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Michael R Brent | Washington University, St. Louis, USA |
| Roger Bumgarner | University of Washington, USA |
| Rita Casadio | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Ting Chen | University of Southern California, USA |
| George Church | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Kevin R Coombes | University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA |
| Richard Copley | Wellcome Trust Centre For Human Genetics, UK |
| Joaquin Dopazo | Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain |
| Werner Dubitzky | University of Ulster, UK |
| Sandrine Dudoit | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Richard Durbin | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK |
| Sean Eddy | Janelia Farm Research Campus, USA |
| Janan T Eppig | The Jackson Laboratory, USA |
| Olivier Gascuel | LIRMM-CNRS, France |
| Daniel Gautheret | INSERM ERM-206 , France |
| Mikhail Gelfand | Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation |
| Mark Gerstein | Yale University, USA |
| Debashis Ghosh | University of Michigan, USA |
| Raffaele Giancarlo | University of Palermo, Italy |
| Winston Hide | University of the Western Cape, South Africa |
| Des G Higgins | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Liisa Holm | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Frank Holstege | University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands |
| Eivind Hovig | Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway |
| Rafael Irizarry | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Bernard Jacq | IBDM, France |
| Tao Jiang | University of California, Riverside, USA |
| Minoru Kanehisa | Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Peter D Karp | SRI International, USA |
| Steen Knudsen | Medical Prognosis Institute, Denmark |
| Isaac Kohane | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Anders Krogh | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Yixue Li | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Jingchu Luo | Peking University, China |
| Burkhard Morgenstern | University of Goettingen, Germany |
| B F Francis Ouellette | University of British Columbia, Canada |
| Graziano Pesole | University of Milan, Italy |
| Jonathan Pevsner | Kennedy Krieger Institute, USA |
| Pavel A Pevzner | University of California, San Diego |
| Ping Qiu | Schering-Plough Research Institute, USA |
| Shoba Ranganathan | Macquarie University, Australia |
| J. Sunil Rao | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| David Rocke | University of California, Davis, USA |
| Marie France Sagot | Universite Claude Bernard, France |
| Steven Salzberg | University of Maryland, USA |
| Colin Semple | MRC Human Genetics Unit, UK |
| Richard Simon | National Cancer Institute, USA |
| Donna Slonim | Tufts University, USA |
| Berend Snel | Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre , Netherlands |
| Peter F Stadler | University Leipzig, Germany |
| Toshihisa Takagi | University of Tokyo, Japan |
| Masaru Tomita | Keio University, Japan |
| Martin Vingron | Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Germany |
| Michael S. Waterman | University of Southern California, USA |
| Zhiping Weng | Boston University, USA |
| Shoshana Wodak | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Michael Zhang | Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, USA |
| Xuegong Zhang | Tsinghua University, China |