| Keynote | ||
| Thomas Lengauer | Max Planck Institute | |
| Session: RNA | ||
| Paul Higgs | McMaster University | |
| Todd Lowe | University of California | |
| Peter Stadler | University of Leipzig | |
| Michael Zuker | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
| Session: Evolution of protein structure | ||
| Brian Golding | McMaster University | |
| Arthur Lesk | Penn State University | |
| David Pollock | Louisiana State | |
| Boris Shakhnovich | Boston University | |
| Session: Systems Biology | ||
| John Quackenbush | The Institute for Genomic Research | |
| Nick Luscombe | Yale University | |
| Avi Mayo | Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| Jeff Hasty | University of California | |
| Session: Comparative prokaryotic genomics | ||
| John Helmann | Cornell University | |
| James McInerney | National University of Ireland Maynooth | |
| Dawn Field | Oxford University | |
| Nick Thomson | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute | |
| Session: Databases and ontologies | ||
| Susan Davidson | University of Pennsylvania | |
| Midori Harris | European Bioinformatics Institute | |
| Lynette Hirschman | MITRE | |
| Robert Stevens | University of Manchester | |