Biology Direct is an open access, peer reviewed journal devoted to the biochemistry, genetics, cell, molecular, and computational biology of organisms and cells. It deals with all aspects of life sciences that have relevant biological and medical implications. Biology Direct will also place an emphasis on translational and applied research and will provide a unified forum open to the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. It is committed to the rapid publication of high-quality original papers together with topical - usually solicited – review papers, meeting reports, discussion forums, editorial correspondence and occasional commentaries on controversial and scientifically informative issues.

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Editor-in-Chief
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Section Editors
Bioinformatics
Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatic Institute, Singapore 
Sandor Pongor, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy 
Cell Biology
Luca Pellegrini, Université Laval, Canada
Evolutionary Biology 
Fyodor Kondrashov, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain 
Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 
Genomics
Tal Dagan, Kiel University, Germany 
Martijn Huynen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Mathematical Biology
Marek Kimmel, Rice University, USA 
Non-coding DNA and RNA
Isidore Rigoutsos, Thomas Jefferson University, USA 
Structural and Molecular Biology
Nick Grishin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA 
Jeffrey Skolnick, Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, USA 
Systems Biology
Yuriy Gusev, Georgetown University, USA
Yang Kuang, Arizona State University, USA
Discovery notes Editor
L Aravind, NCBI, USA 
Editorial Board
Bioinformatics
Orly Alter, University of Utah, USA 
Vivek Anantharaman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Miguel A Andrade-Navarro, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany 
L Aravind, NCBI, USA 
Masanori Arita, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Igor Berezovsky, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore 
Philippe Broet, INSERM, France 
Oliviero Carugo, University of Vienna, Austria 
Miklos Csuros, Université de Montréal, Canada 
Thomas Dandekar, Department of Bioinformatics, University of Wuerzburg, Germany 
Sandrine Dudoit, University of California, USA 
Roman G Efremov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatic Institute, Singapore 
Arne Elofsson, Stockholm University, Dominica 
Rob Finn, HHMI Janelia Farm research Campus, USA 
Dmitrij Frishman, Technische Universität München, Germany 
Mikhail Gelfand, Russian Academy of Science, Russia 
Michael Gromiha, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 
Ivo Grosse, Martin Luther University, Germany 
Yuriy Gusev, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Zoltán Gáspári, Pazmany University, Budapest 
Daniel Haft, JCVI, USA 
Leonid G Hanin, Idaho State Univesrsity, USA 
Jaap Heringa, Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, Amsterdam 
Hanspeter Herzel, ITB, Germany 
Gavin Huttley, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia 
Lakshminarayan Iyer, NIH ,USA 
I. King Jordan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Christina Kendziorski, UW-Madison, USA 
Byung-Soo Kim, Yonsei University, South Korea
Rob D Knight, CU Boulder, USA 
Patrice Koehl, Stanford University, USA 
David P Kreil, Boku University, Austria 
Doron Lancet, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
Sanghyuk Lee, Ewha Womans University, South Korea 
David Lipman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Andrew MacPherson, McMaster University Medical Centre, Canada 
Mallur Madhusudhan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India 
Manja Marz, University of Jena, Germany 
Sebastian Maurer-Stroh, Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, Singapore 
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Niranjan Nagarajan, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore 
Anton Nekrutenko, Penn State University, USA 
Anthony Papenfuss, The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia 
Sandor Pongor, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy 
Vladimir Poroikov, Institute of Biomedical Chemistry of Rus. Acad. Med. Sci, Russia 
Gajendra Raghava, Institute of Microbial Technology, India 
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA 
Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Chris Sander, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA 
Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, USA 
Michael G. Schimek, Medical University of Graz, Austria 
Alexander Schleiffer, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Austria 
Christian Schönbach, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan 
Jeremy Selengut, University of Maryland, USA
István Simon, Institute of Enzymology, Hungary 
Neil R Smalheiser, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India 
Shamil R Sunyaev, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Eors Szathmary, Parmenides Foundation, Germany 
Zlatko Trajanoski, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria 
Olga Troyanskaya, Princeton University, USA 
Mark J van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley, USA 
Chandra Verma, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore 
Arndt von Haeseler, Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria 
Christine Wells, University of Queensland, Australia 
Limsoon Wong, NUS, Singapore 
Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University, USA 
Jun Yu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 
Weichuan Yu, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 
Zhang Zhang, BIG CAS, China 
Igor Zhulin, University of Tennessee, USA 
Piotr Zielenkiewicz, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland 
Cell Biology
Nicola Aceto, University of Basel, Switzerland
Adam Benham, Durham University, UK
Elisa Cimetta, University of Padua, Italy
Luciano D’Adamio, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Lars Ellgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Rafael Fernández-Chacón, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla (IBiS), Spain 
William Festuccia, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Michael Hendzel, University of Alberta, Canada
Rashmi Kothari, University of Ottawa, Canada
Mathieu Laplante, Universitè Laval, Canada
Konstantinos Lefkimmiatis, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Italy
Patrick Lewis, University of Reading, UK
Scot Leary, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
Jean-Yves Masson, Universitè Laval, Canada
Darren J Moore, Van Andel Research Institute, Grand Rapids, USA
Minh Dang Nguyen, University of Calgary, Canada
Luca Pellegrini, Université Laval, Canada
Paola Pizzo, University of Padua, Italy
Xavier Roucou, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Mike Ryan, Monash University, Australia
Leonardo Salviati, University of Padua, Italy
Luca Scorrano, University of Padua, Italy
Thomas Simmen, University of Alberta, Canada
Ruth Slack, University of Ottawa, Canada
Maria-Eugenia Soriano, University of Padua, Italy
Gyorgy Szabadkai, University College London, UK 
Nektarios Tavernarakis, University of Crete, Greece
Christine Vande Velde, University of Montreal, Canada
Konstanze F Winklhofer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Elena Ziviani, University of Padua, Italy
Evolutionary Biology 
Vivek Anantharaman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
L Aravind, NCBI, USA 
David Ardell, UC Merced, Sweden 
Eric Bapteste, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Anne Cooke, Pathology Department, University of Cambridge, UK 
Etienne GJ Danchin, INRA Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France 
Valerian Dolja, Oregon State University, USA 
W Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie University, Canada 
Hans Ellegren, Uppsala University, Sweden 
Patrick Forterre, University Paris XI, France 
George Fox, University of Houston, USA 
Toni Gabaldon, Centre for Genomics Regulation (CRG), Spain 
Nicolas Galtier, CNRS - Université Montpellier 2, France 
Mikhail Gelfand, Russian Academy of Science, Russia 
J Peter Gogarten, University of Connecticut, USA 
Uri Gophna, Tel Aviv University, Israel 
Dan Graur, University of Houston, USA 
Neil Greenspan, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
Greg Hurst, University of Liverpool, UK 
Lakshminarayan Iyer, NIH, USA 
Peter Jagers, Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
Etienne Joly, CNRS, France 
Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Society, Germany 
Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Rob D Knight, CU Boulder, USA 
Alexey Kondrashov, University of Michigan, USA 
Fyodor Kondrashov, Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain 
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Mart Krupovic, Institut Pasteur, France 
Yang Kuang, Arizona State University, USA 
Nick Lane, University College London, UK 
Manyuan Long, University of Chicago, USA 
Purificacion Lopez-Garcia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France 
Craig MacLean, University of Oxford, UK 
William Martin, University of Duesseldorf, Germany 
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA 
James McInerney, NUI Maynooth, Ireland 
Armen Mulkidjanian, University of Osnabrück, Germany 
Csaba Pal, Biological Research Center, Hungary 
Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 
Mircea Podar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Pierre Pontarotti, Universite d'Aix Marseille, France 
Anthony Poole, Stockholm University, Sweden 
David Posada, University of Vigo, Spain 
Igor B Rogozin, NIH ,USA 
Christian Roos, German Primate Center, Germany 
Janet Siefert, Rice University, USA 
Berend Snel, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Kenneth Stedman, Portland State University, USA 
Eors Szathmary, Parmenides Foundation, Germany 
Olivier Tenaillon, INSERM, France 
Erik van Nimwegen, Universtity of Basel, Switzerland 
Dennis Vitkup, Columbia University, USA 
Yuri Wolf, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Jianzhi Zhang, University of Michigan, USA 
Igor Zhulin, University of Tennessee, USA 
Genomics
Vivek Anantharaman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
L Aravind, NCBI, USA 
Jurg Bahler, University College London, UK 
Stephan Beck, University College London, UK 
Oded Beja, Technion, Israel 
Mikhail Blagosklonny, NYMC, USA 
Tal Dagan, Kiel University, Germany 
Etienne GJ Danchin, INRA, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France 
Robson Francisco De Souza, National Institutes of Health, USA 
Charles DeLisi, Boston University USA 
Bart Deplancke, EPFL Switzerland 
Valerian Dolja, Oregon State University, USA 
Michael B Eisen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
Eran Elhaik, University of Sheffield, UK 
George Fox, University of Houston, USA 
Toni Gabaldon, Centre for Genomics Regulation (CRG), Spain 
Michael Galperin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Mark Gerstein, Yale University, USA 
Uri Gophna, Tel Aviv University, Israel 
Michael Gray, Dalhousie University, Canada 
Yuriy Gusev, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Daniel Haft, JCVI, USA 
Leonid G Hanin, Idaho State Univesrsity, USA 
Laurence D Hurst, University of Bath, UK 
Martijn Huynen, Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Lakshminarayan Iyer, NIH, USA 
I. King Jordan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Christina Kendziorski, UW-Madison, USA 
Lev Klebanov, Charles University, Czech Republic 
Rob D Knight, CU Boulder, USA 
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Matrix, Singapore 
Christopher J Lee, University of California, USA 
Michael Lenardo, NIH, USA 
Kateryna Makova, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
Jose Pereira-Leal, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal 
Mircea Podar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Tal Pupko, Tel Aviv University, Israel 
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA 
Steven Salzberg, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Harry Schroeder, University of Alabama, USA 
Christian Schönbach, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan 
Aswin Seshasayee, National Centre for Biological Sciences, India 
Harinder Singh, University of Chicago, USA 
Berend Snel, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 
Kenneth Stedman, Portland State University, USA 
Shamil R Sunyaev, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA 
Thiago Motta Venancio, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil 
Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University, USA 
Dennis Vitkup, Columbia University, USA 
Lutz Walter, German Primate Center, Germany 
Christine Wells, University of Queensland, Australia 
Yuri Wolf, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Igor Zhulin, University of Tennessee, USA 
Mathematical Biology
Anthony Almudevar, University of Rochester, USA 
Orly Alter, University of Utah, USA 
Kenneth Boucher, Huntsman Cancer Institute, USA 
Chao Chen, Environmental Protection Agency, USA 
Daniel Coombs, UBC, Canada 
Rob J de Boer, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Lutz Edler, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 
James R. Faeder, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 
Michael Gilchrist, University of Tennessee, USA 
Peter Glynn, Stanford University, USA 
Alexander Gordon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 
Yuriy Gusev, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Philip Hahnfeldt, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA 
Leonid G Hanin, Idaho State Univesrsity, USA 
William Hlavacek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 
Ollivier Hyrien, University of Rochester, USA 
Peter Jagers, Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Jeanne Kowalski, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Yang Kuang, Arizona State University, USA 
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Matri,x Singapore 
Ha Youn Lee, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA 
Tomasz Lipniacki, Rice University, USA 
Georg Luebeck, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA 
Anna Marciniak-Czochra, University of Heidelberg, Germany 
Marianthi Markatou, Cornell University and IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA 
Peter Olofsson, Trinity University, USA 
Dennis Pearl, Ohio State University, USA 
Tomas Radivoyevitch, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
Ruy M Ribeiro, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 
Rainer Sachs, University of California, USA 
Aniko Szabo, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA 
Wai-Yuan, Tan University of Memphis, USA 
Nikolay Yanev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 
Marco Zaider, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA 
Non-coding DNA and RNA
Ashish Lal, NIH, USA 
Joanne Barnes, Weidhaas Yale University, USA 
Panayiotis (Takis) Benos, University of Pittsburgh, USA 
Eugene Berezikov, University of Groningen, Netherlands 
George Calin, MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA 
Rob Finn, HHMI, Janelia Farm research Campus, USA 
Alistair Forrest, Omics Science Center, Japan 
Joannes Hoek, Thomas Jefferson University, USA 
Aimee Jackson, Miragen Therapeutics, USA 
Igor Jurisica, University of Toronto, Canada 
Alexander Kel, Genexplain, Germany 
Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Yohei Kirino, Cedars Sinai Los Angeles, USA 
Erez Levanon, Bar-Ilan University, Israel 
Kevin Morris, The Scripps Research Institute, USA 
Zissimos Mourelatos, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA 
Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, USA 
Isidore Rigoutsos, Thomas Jefferson University, USA 
Haruhiko Siomi, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan 
Mikiko C Siomi, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Neil R Smalheiser, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA 
Nektarios Tavernarakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece 
Prof Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Wyeth Wasserman, University of British Columbia, Canada 
Weixiong Zhang, Washington University, USA 
Structural and Molecular Biology
Vivek Anantharaman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
L Aravind, NCBI, USA 
M Madan Babu, LMB, UK 
Mensur Dlakic, Montana State University, USA 
Roman G Efremov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia 
Ron Elber, Cornell University, USA 
Michael Galperin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Mark Gerstein, Yale University, USA 
Nick Grishin, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, USA 
Michael Gromiha, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India 
Wayne Hancock, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Noah Isakov, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel 
Lakshminarayan Iyer, NIH, USA
Eugene Koonin, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Michael Lenardo, NIH, USA 
Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine, USA 
Mallur Madhusudhan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India 
Kira S Makarova, NLM, NIH, USA 
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA 
Cornelis Melief, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands 
Leonid A Mirny, MIT, USA 
Sita R Naik, Devi Ahilya University, India 
Chris Norbury, Milton S Hershey Medical Center, USA 
Christine Orengo, University College London, UK 
Andrei Osterman, Burnham Institute, USA 
Chaim Putterman, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA 
Kanury Rao, ICGEB, India 
Benedita Rocha, INSERM, Institut Necker Enfants-Malades, France 
Sergio Romagnani, University of Florence, Italy 
Takashi Saito, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Japan 
Marika Sarfati, Centre de Recherche du CHUM, Hopital Notre-Dame, Canada 
David Scott, Univ Maryland SOM, USA 
Eugene I Shakhnovich, Harvard University, USA 
Hao Shen, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA 
Ethan Shevach, NIAID, NIH, USA 
Akira Shibuya, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
Mark Shlomchik, Yale University School of Medicine, USA 
George V (Yura) Shpakovski, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Shyh-Dar Shyur, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan 
Robert Siliciano, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA 
Bhagirath Singh, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
Jeffrey Skolnick, Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, USA 
Werner Solbach, University Lübeck, Germany 
Ramanathan Sowdhamini, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India 
Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Indian Institute of Science, India 
Srikrishna Subramanian, Institute of Microbial Technology, India 
Manabu Sugai, Kyoto University, Japan 
Man-Sun Sy Case, Western Reserve University, USA 
Kiyoshi Takatsu, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Kiyoshi Takeda, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan 
Dave Thirumalai ,University of Maryland, USA 
Chandra Verma, Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore 
Eric Vivier, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), France 
Harald von Boehmer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA 
Matthias von Herrath, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA 
Ned S Wingreen, Princeton University 
Dieter Wolf Sanford-Burnham, Medical Research Institute, USA 
David Woodland, Trudeau Institute, USA 
Bojan Zagrovic, Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Croatia 
Juan Carlos Zuniga- Pflucker, University of Toronto, Canada 
Systems Biology
Anthony Almudevar, University of Rochester, USA 
Orly Alter, University of Utah, USA 
Ido Amit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Vivek Anantharaman, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Masanori Arita, The University of Tokyo, Japan 
Kenneth Boucher, Huntsman Cancer Institute, USA 
Chao Chen, Environmental Protection Agency, USA 
Bob Clarke, Lombardi Conmprehensive Cancer Ctr, Georgetown University, USA 
Daniel Coombs, UBC, Canada 
Rob J de Boer, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
Bart Deplancke, EPFL, Switzerland 
Lutz Edler, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 
Michael Gilchrist, University of Tennessee, USA 
Peter Glynn, Stanford University, USA 
Alexander Gordon, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA 
Yuriy Gusev, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA 
Philip Hahnfeldt, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA 
Leonid G Hanin, Idaho State Univesrsity, USA 
William Hlavacek, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 
Ollivier Hyrien, University of Rochester, USA 
Peter Jagers, Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
Daniel Kahn, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France 
Simon Kasif,  Boston University, USA 
Junhyong Kim, University of Pennsylvania, USA 
Markus Kollmann, Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany 
Jeanne Kowalski, Johns Hopkins University, USA 
Yang Kuang, Arizona State University, USA 
Vladimir Kuznetsov, Matrix, Singapore 
Ha Youn Lee, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA 
Martin Lercher, Heinrich-Heine University, Germany 
Tomasz Lipniacki, Rice University, USA 
Alexander Lobkovsky NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA 
Manyuan Long, University of Chicago, USA 
Georg Luebeck, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA 
Anna Marciniak-Czochra, University of Heidelberg, Germany 
Sergei Maslov, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA 
Robert Murphy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 
Peter Olofsson, Trinity University, USA 
Dennis Pearl, Ohio State University, USA 
Luca Pellegrini, Universite' Laval, Canada 
Mircea Podar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA 
Tomas Radivoyevitch, Case Western Reserve University, USA 
Mark Ragan, University of Queensland, Australia 
Ruy M Ribeiro, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA 
Benedita Rocha, INSERM, Institut Necker Enfants-Malades, France 
Andrey Rzhetsky, University of Chicago, USA 
Rainer Sachs, University of California, USA 
Shai Shen-Orr, Technicon, Israel 
Tomer Shlomi, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel 
Ricard Sole, ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain 
Aniko Szabo, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA 
Wai-Yuan Tan, University of Memphis, USA 
Sarah Teichmann, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK 
Fabian J Theis, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany 
Erik van Nimwegen, Universtity of Basel, Switzerland 
Thiago Motta Venancio, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil 
Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University, USA 
Dennis Vitkup, Columbia University, USA 
Christine Wells, University of Queensland, Australia 
Dieter Wolf, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, USA 
Itai Yanai, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Nikolay Yanev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 
Soojin Yi, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA 
Marco Zaider, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA 
Piotr Zielenkiewicz, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland