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Editorial Board

Editors-in-Chief

  • Eugene Koonin NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Laura Landweber Princeton University, United States of America
  • David Lipman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America

Section Editors

Bioinformatics

  • Frank Eisenhaber Bioinformatic Institute, Singapore
  • Sandor Pongor International Centre for Genetic Engineering and biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy

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, United States of America

Non-coding DNA and RNA

  • Isidore Rigoutsos Thomas Jefferson University, United States of America

Structural and Molecular Biology

  • Nick Grishin University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States of America
  • Jeffrey Skolnick Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, United States of America

Systems Biology

  • Martin Lercher Heinrich-Heine University, Germany
  • Itai Yanai Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Discovery notes Editor

  • L Aravind NCBI, United States of America

Editorial Board

Bioinformatics

  • Orly Alter University of Utah, United States of America
  • Vivek Anantharaman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Miguel A Andrade-Navarro Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany
  • L Aravind NCBI, United States of America
  • Masanori Arita The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Manju Bansal Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Igor Berezovsky Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  • 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, United States of America
  • Frank Eisenhaber Bioinformatic Institute, Singapore
  • Rob Finn HHMI, Janelia Farm research Campus, United States of America
  • Dmitrij Frishman Technische Universität München, Germany
  • Mikhail Gelfand Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
  • Michael Ghomiha Indian Institute of Technology, Chenai, India
  • Ivo Grosse Martin Luther University, Germany
  • Yuriy Gusev Georgetown University Medical Center, United States of America
  • Zoltán Gáspári Pazmany University, Budapest
  • Daniel Haft JCVI, United States of America
  • Leonid G Hanin Idaho State Univesrsity, United States of America
  • Jaap Heringa Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics, Amsterdam
  • Hanspeter Herzel ITB, Germany
  • Gavin Huttley John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australia
  • Lakshminarayan Iyer NIH, United States of America
  • I. King Jordan Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
  • Jerzy Jurka Genetic Information Research Institute, United States of America
  • Christina Kendziorski UW-Madison, United States of America
  • Byung-Soo Kim Yonsei University, Korea, South
  • Rob D Knight CU Boulder, United States of America
  • Patrice Koehl Stanford University, United States of America
  • David P DK Kreil BOKU University, Austria
  • Doron Lancet Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Sanghyuk Lee Ewha Womans University, South Korea
  • Andrew MacPherson McMaster University Medical Centre, Canada
  • Mallur Madhusudhan Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
  • Manja Marz University of Jena, Germany
  • Sebastian Maurer-Stroh Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, Singapore
  • Geoff McLachlan University of Queensland, Australia
  • Robert Murphy Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
  • Arcady Mushegian Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America
  • Niranjan Nagarajan Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
  • Anton Nekrutenko Penn State University, United States of America
  • 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
  • Mark Ragan University of Queensland, Australia
  • Gajendra Raghava Institute of Microbial Technology, India
  • Andrey Rzhetsky University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
  • Chris Sander Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States of America
  • Michael Schatz Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, United States of America
  • 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 Potomac School in McLean, Virginia
  • István Simon Institute of Enzymology, Hungary
  • Neil R Smalheiser University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America
  • Ramanathan Sowdhamini Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
  • Narayanaswamy Srinivasan Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Eors Szathmary Parmenides Foundation, Germany
  • Zlatko Trajanoski Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
  • Olga Troyanskaya Princeton University, United States of America
  • Mark J van der Laan University of California at Berkeley, United States of America
  • Chandra Verma Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
  • Arndt von Haeseler Max F Perutz Laboratories, Austria
  • Christine Wells University of Queensland, Australia
  • Claus Wilke The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
  • Limsoon Wong NUS, Singapore
  • Wing Hung Wong Stanford University, United States of America
  • 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, United States of America
  • Piotr Zielenkiewicz Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland

Evolutionary Biology

  • Vivek Anantharaman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • L Aravind NCBI, United States of America
  • David Ardell Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Eric Bapteste Dalhousie University, Canada
  • Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  • Anne Cooke Pathology Department, U of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • Etienne GJ Danchin INRA, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France
  • Valerian Dolja Oregon State University, United States of America
  • W Ford Doolittle Dalhousie University, Canada
  • Hans Ellegren Uppsala University, Sweden
  • Adam Eyre-Walker University of Sussex, United Kingdom
  • Patrick Forterre University Paris XI, France
  • George Fox University of Houston, United States of America
  • Toni Gabaldon Centre for Genomics Regulation (CRG), Spain
  • Nicolas Galtier CNRS - Université Montpellier 2, France
  • Mikhail Gelfand Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
  • J Peter Gogarten University of Connecticut, United States of America
  • Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Dan Graur University of Houston, United States of America
  • Neil Greenspan Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
  • Simonetta Gribaldo Institut Pasteur, France
  • Greg Hurst University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
  • Lakshminarayan Iyer NIH, United States of America
  • Peter Jagers Chalmers University of Technology & University of Gothenburg
  • Gaspar Jekely Max Planck Society, Germany
  • Etienne Joly CNRS, France
  • Junhyong Kim University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Rob D Knight CU Boulder, United States of America
  • Alexey Kondrashov University of Michigan, United States of America
  • Fyodor Kondrashov Center for Genomic Regulation, Spain
  • Eugene Koonin NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Mart Krupovic Institut Pasteur, France
  • Yang Kuang Arizona State University, United States of America
  • Nick Lane UCL, United Kingdom
  • Manyuan Long University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Purificacion Lopez-Garcia Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  • Craig MacLean University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  • William Martin University of Duesseldorf, Germany
  • Sergei Maslov Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
  • James McInerney NUI Maynooth
  • Armen Mulkidjanian University of Osnabrück, Germany
  • Dr Csaba Pal Biological Research Center, Hungary
  • Yitzhak Pilpel Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Pierre Pontarotti Universite d'Aix Marseille, France
  • Dr Anthony Poole Stockholm University, Sweden
  • David Posada University of Vigo, Spain
  • Igor B Rogozin NIH, United States of America
  • Christian Roos German Primate Center, Germany
  • Janet Siefert Rice University, United States of America
  • Berend Snel Utrecht University, Netherlands
  • Kenneth Stedman Portland State University, United States of America
  • Eors Szathmary Parmenides Foundation, Germany
  • Olivier Tenaillon INSERM, France
  • Erik van Nimwegen Universtity of Basel, Switzerland
  • Dennis Vitkup Columbia University, United States of America
  • Claus Wilke The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
  • Yuri Wolf NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States of America
  • Soojin Yi Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
  • Jianzhi Zhang University of Michigan, United States of America
  • Igor Zhulin University of Tennessee, United States of America

Genomics

  • Vivek Anantharaman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • L Aravind NCBI, United States of America
  • Jurg Bahler University College London, United Kingdom
  • Stephan Beck University College London, United Kingdom
  • Oded Beja Technion, Israel
  • Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  • Tal Dagan Kiel University, Germany
  • Etienne GJ Danchin INRA, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France
  • Robson Francisco De Souza National Institutes of Health, United States of America
  • Charles DeLisi Boston University, United States of America
  • Bart Deplancke EPFL, Switzerland
  • Valerian Dolja Oregon State University, United States of America
  • Jonathan A Eisen University of California, United States of America
  • Michael B Eisen Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, United States of America
  • Eran Elhaik John Hopkins School of Medicine, United States of America
  • Adam Eyre-Walker University of Sussex, United Kingdom
  • George Fox University of Houston, United States of America
  • Toni Gabaldon Centre for Genomics Regulation (CRG), Spain
  • Michael Galperin NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Mark Gerstein Yale University, United States of America
  • Rachel Gerstein University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States of America
  • Uri Gophna Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Michael Gray Dalhousie University, Canada
  • Simonetta Gribaldo Institut Pasteur, France
  • Yuriy Gusev Georgetown University Medical Center, United States of America
  • Daniel Haft JCVI, United States of America
  • Leonid G Hanin Idaho State Univesrsity, United States of America
  • Laurence D Hurst University of Bath, United Kingdom
  • Martijn Huynen Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • Lakshminarayan Iyer NIH, United States of America
  • I. King Jordan Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
  • Jerzy Jurka Genetic Information Research Institute, United States of America
  • Christina Kendziorski UW-Madison, United States of America
  • Rob D Knight CU Boulder, United States of America
  • Vladimir Kuznetsov Matrix, Singapore
  • Christopher J Lee University of California, United States of America
  • Michael Lenardo NIH, United States of America
  • Kateryna Makova Pennsylvania State University, United States of America
  • Arcady Mushegian Stowers Institute for Medical Research, United States of America
  • Jose Pereira-Leal Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
  • Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Tal Pupko Tel Aviv University, Israel
  • Andrey Rzhetsky University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Steven Salzberg Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
  • Harry Schroeder University of Alabama, United States of America
  • Christian Schönbach Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
  • Aswin Seshasayee National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
  • Harinder Singh University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Berend Snel Utrecht University, Netherlands
  • Ramanathan Sowdhamini Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
  • Kenneth Stedman Portland State University, United States of America
  • Shamil R Sunyaev Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States of America
  • Thiago Motta Venancio Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil
  • Marc Vidal Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Harvard University, United States of America
  • Dennis Vitkup Columbia University, United States of America
  • Lutz Walter German Primate Center, Germany
  • Christine Wells University of Queensland, Australia
  • Claus Wilke The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
  • Yuri Wolf NCBI/NLM/NIH, United States of America
  • Soojin Yi Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
  • Igor Zhulin University of Tennessee, United States of America

Mathematical Biology

  • Anthony Almudevar University of Rochester, United States of America
  • Orly Alter University of Utah, United States of America
  • Adam Bobrowski Lublin University of Technology, Poland
  • Kenneth Boucher Huntsman Cancer Institute, United States of America
  • Chao Chen Environmental Protection Agency, United States of America
  • 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, United States of America
  • Michael Gilchrist University of Tennessee, United States of America
  • Peter Glynn Stanford University, United States of America
  • Alexander Gordon University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States of America
  • Philip Hahnfeldt Tufts University School of Medicine, United States of America
  • Leonid G Hanin Idaho State Univesrsity, United States of America
  • William Hlavacek Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Ollivier Hyrien University of Rochester, United States of America
  • Christine Jacob INRA, France
  • Jeanne Kowalski Johns Hopkins University, United States of America
  • Yang Kuang Arizona State University, United States of America
  • Ha Youn Lee University of Rochester Medical Center, United States of America
  • Georg Luebeck Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States of America
  • Anna Marciniak-Czochra University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • Marianthi Markatou Cornell University and IBM TJ Watson Research Center, United States of America
  • Peter Olofsson Trinity University, United States of America
  • Dennis Pearl Ohio State University, United States of America
  • Tomas Radivoyevitch Case Western Reserve University, United States of America
  • Ruy M Ribeiro Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Rainer Sachs University of California, United States of America
  • Aniko Szabo Medical College of Wisconsin, United States of America
  • Wai-Yuan Tan University of Memphis, United States of America
  • Nikolay Yanev Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
  • Marco Zaider Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, United States of America

Non-coding DNA and RNA

  • Ashish Lal NIH, United States of America
  • Joanne Barnes Weidhaas Yale University, United States of America
  • Panayiotis (Takis) Benos University of Pittsburgh, United States of America
  • Eugene Berezikov University of Groningen, Netherlands
  • George Calin MD Anderson Cancer Center, United States of America
  • Rob Finn HHMI, Janelia Farm research Campus, United States of America
  • Joannes Hoek Thomas Jefferson University, United States of America
  • Aimee Jackson miRagen Therapeutics, United States of America
  • Igor Jurisica University of Toronto, Canada
  • Alexander Kel Genexplain, Germany
  • Junhyong Kim University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Yohei Kirino Cedars Sinai Los Angeles, United States of America
  • Erez Levanon Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Kevin Morris The Scripps Research Institute, United States of America
  • Zissimos Mourelatos University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States of America
  • Pier Paolo Pandolfi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, United States of America
  • Isidore Rigoutsos Thomas Jefferson University, United States of America
  • Haruhiko Siomi Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
  • Mikiko Siomi The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Neil R Smalheiser University of Illinois at Chicago, United States of America
  • Nektarios Tavernarakis Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Greece
  • Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Wyeth Wasserman University of British Columbia, Canada
  • Weixiong Zhang Washington University, United States of America

Structural and Molecular Biology

  • Vivek Anantharaman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • L Aravind NCBI, United States of America
  • M Madan Babu LMB, United Kingdom
  • Manju Bansal Indian Institute of Science, India
  • Janusz Bujnicki International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw, Poland
  • Mensur Dlakic Montana State University, United States of America
  • Ron Elber Cornell University, United States of America
  • Michael Galperin NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Mark Gerstein Yale University, United States of America
  • Rachel Gerstein University of Massachusetts Medical School, United States of America
  • Michael Ghomiha Indian Institute of Technology, Chenai, India
  • Nick Grishin University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, United States of America
  • Wayne Hancock University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Noah Isakov Faculty of Health Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Lakshminarayan Iyer NIH, United States of America
  • Eugene Koonin NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Michael Lenardo NIH, United States of America
  • Olivier Lichtarge Baylor College of Medicine, United States of America
  • Mallur Madhusudhan Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
  • Kira S Makarova NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Sergei Maslov Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Cornelis Melief Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
  • Leonid A Mirny MIT, United States of America
  • Sita R Naik Devi Ahilya University, India
  • Chris Norbury Milton S Hershey Medical Center, United States of America
  • Christine Orengo University College London, United Kingdom
  • Andrei Osterman Burnham Institute, United States of America
  • Chaim Putterman Albert Einstein College of Medicine, United States of America
  • 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, United States of America
  • Eugene I Shakhnovich Harvard University, United States of America
  • Hao Shen University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, United States of America
  • Ethan Shevach NIAID, NIH, United States of America
  • Akira Shibuya University of Tsukuba, Japan
  • Mark Shlomchik Yale University School of Medicine, United States of America
  • George V (Yura) Shpakovski Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
  • Shyh-Dar Shyur Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
  • Robert Siliciano Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States of America
  • Bhagirath Singh University of Western Ontario, Canada
  • Jeffrey Skolnick Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, United States of America
  • 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, United States of America
  • Kiyoshi Takatsu The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Kiyoshi Takeda Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan
  • Dave Thirumalai University of Maryland, United States of America
  • Chandra Verma Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
  • Eric Vivier Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), France
  • Harald von Boehmer Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States of America
  • Matthias von Herrath La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, United States of America
  • Claus Wilke The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America
  • Ned S Wingreen Princeton University
  • Dieter Wolf Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, United States of America
  • David Woodland Trudeau Institute, United States of America
  • Bojan Zagrovic Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Croatia
  • Juan Carlos Zuniga- Pflucker University of Toronto, Canada

Systems Biology

  • Orly Alter University of Utah, United States of America
  • Ido Amit Broad Institute, United States of America
  • Vivek Anantharaman NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Masanori Arita The University of Tokyo, Japan
  • Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  • Bob Clarke Lombardi Conmprehensive Cancer Ctr, Georgetown University, United States of America
  • Bart Deplancke EPFL, Switzerland
  • Yuriy Gusev Georgetown University Medical Center, United States of America
  • Leonid G Hanin Idaho State Univesrsity, United States of America
  • William Hlavacek Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Jerzy Jurka Genetic Information Research Institute, United States of America
  • Daniel Kahn Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
  • Simon Kasif Boston University, United States of America
  • Junhyong Kim University of Pennsylvania, United States of America
  • Markus Kollmann Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany
  • Yang Kuang Arizona State University, United States of America
  • Martin Lercher Heinrich-Heine University, Germany
  • Tomasz Lipniacki Rice University, United States of America
  • Alexander Lobkovsky NCBI, NLM, NIH, United States of America
  • Manyuan Long University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Sergei Maslov Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Robert Murphy Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America
  • Luca Pellegrini Universite' Laval, Canada
  • Mircea Podar Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States of America
  • Mark Ragan University of Queensland, Australia
  • Benedita Rocha INSERM, Institut Necker Enfants-Malades, France
  • Andrey Rzhetsky University of Chicago, United States of America
  • Shai Shen-Orr Technicon, Israel
  • Tomer Shlomi Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Ricard Sole ICREA - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
  • Sarah Teichmann MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
  • 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, United States of America
  • Dennis Vitkup Columbia University, United States of America
  • Christine Wells University of Queensland, Australia
  • Dieter Wolf Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, United States of America
  • Itai Yanai Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  • Soojin Yi Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America
  • Piotr Zielenkiewicz Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics PAS, Poland

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