| Peer Bork | European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Roger Bumgarner | University of Washington, USA |
| Jean-Michel Claverie | C.N.R.S. - UMR 1889, France |
| Antoine Danchin | Institut Pasteur, France |
| Paul Denny | MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit, UK |
| Joaquin Dopazo | Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe, Spain |
| Evan E Eichler | University of Washington, USA |
| Jay D Evans | Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, USA |
| Michael Galperin | National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, USA |
| Takashi Gojobori | National Institute of Genetics, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Japan |
| Trevor Hawkins | Amersham Biosciences, USA |
| Yoshihide Hayashizaki | RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan |
| Des G Higgins | University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Eivind Hovig | Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway |
| Timothy R Hughes | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Vishwanath Iyer | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Minoru Kanehisa | Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Stuart K Kim | Stanford University Medical School, USA |
| Anders Krogh | University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Adam Kuspa | Baylor College of Medicine Texas, USA |
| Hans Lehrach | Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany |
| Edison Liu | Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore |
| Paul Lyons | Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, UK |
| Arcady Mushegian | Stowers Institute for Medical Research, USA |
| Brian Oliver | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, USA |
| Charles Perou | Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA |
| Norbert Perrimon | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Graziano Pesole | University of Milan, Italy |
| Leif Peterson | Baylor College of Medicine, USA |
| Annemarie Poustka | Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Germany |
| John Quackenbush | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA |
| J. Sunil Rao | Case Western Reserve University, USA |
| David A Relman | Stanford University, USA |
| Douglas Ross | Applied Genomics Inc., USA |
| Steven Salzberg | University of Maryland, USA |
| Paul W Sternberg | California Institute of Technology, Caltech, USA |
| Mark Stitt | Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Pflanzenphysiologie, Germany |
| Marc Vidal | Harvard Medical School, USA |
| Martin Vingron | Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Germany |
| Virginia Walbot | Stanford University, USA |
| James Weber | Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, USA |
| George Weinstock | Baylor College of Medicine, USA |
| Huntington Willard | Duke University, USA |
| Richard K Wilson | Washington University School of Medicine, USA |
| Michael Zhang | Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory, USA |
| Qifa Zhang | Huazhong Agricultural University, China |
| Wei Zhang | The University of Texas, USA |