| Hiram Clawson | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz |
| Jaebum Kim | Konkuk University |
| Jia-Ming Chang | Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Spain Institute of Human Genetics (IGH), CNRS |
| Minmei Hou | Northern Illinois University |
| William James Kent | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz |
| V V Solov'ev | Softberry Inc. |
| Aaron E Darling | ithree Institute, University of Technology Sydney |
| Jian Ma | Department of Bioengineering and Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Michael Brudno | University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children |
| Inna Dubchak | Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Inna Dubchak | Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| David Haussler | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| David Haussler | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| Benedict Paten | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz |
| Benedict Paten | Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, University of California Santa Cruz |