- Stephen Altschul (NCBI, NIH, USA)
- Alberto Apostolico (Purdue University, USA, and University of Padova, Italy)
- Gary Benson (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA)
- David Botstein (Stanford University, USA)
- Jean-Michel Claverie (CNRS, France)
- Ken Dill (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
- Andreas Dress (Bielefeld University, Germany)
- Misha Gelfand (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
- Alain Guénoche (Universite de Marseille, France)
- Sorin Istrail, Program Committee Chair (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
- Tao Jiang (McMaster University, Canada)
- Richard Karp (University of Washington, USA)
- John Kececioglu
(University of Georgia, USA)
- Richard Lathrop (University of California Irvine, USA)
- Thomas Lengauer (GMD-SCAI, Germany)
- Arthur Lesk (Univeristy of Cambridge, England)
- Michael Levitt (Stanford University, USA)
- Pavel Pevzner (University of Southern California, USA)
- Mireille Régnier (INRIA, France)
- Rich Roberts (New England Biolabs, USA)
- Chris Sander (Millenium Pharmaceutical, USA)
- Miyano Satoru (Tokyo University, Japan)
- Sophie Schbath (INRA, France)
- Ron Shamir
(Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
- Jeffrey Skolnick (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
- Donna
Slonim (Whitehead Institute, USA)
- Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
- Martin Vingron (Cancer Research Center, Germany)
- Michael Waterman (University of Southern California, USA)