Section Editors
Comparative and evolutionary genomics
Alexei Fedorov, University of Toledo, USA
Igor B Rogozin, National Institutes of Health, USA

Human and rodent genomics
Leonid Bystrykh, University of Groningen, Netherlands 
Leonard Schalkwyk, King's College London, UK
Stefan Wiemann, German Cancer Research Center, Germany 

Multicellular invertebrate genomics
Christos Louis, IMBB-FORTH, Greece

Non-human and non-rodent vertebrate genomics
Shane C Burgess, University of Arizona, USA
Jacqueline Smith, Roslin Institute, UK

Plant genomics
David Lightfoot, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Keiichi Mochida, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan

Prokaryote microbial genomics
Theo Smits, Zürich University for Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Proteomics
Scott E Hemby, Wake Forest University, USA

Associate Editors
Comparative and evolutionary genomics
Hiroshi Akashi, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University, Canada
Mathew Bellgard, Centre of Comparative Genomics, Australia
Emanuele Bosi, University of Florence, Italy
Huiluo Cao, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 
Tzen-Yuh Chiang, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Trees-Juen Chuang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Miklos Csuros, University of Montreal, Canada
Laura Elnitski, National Institutes of Health, USA
Tapash Chandra Ghosh, Bose Institute, India
Galina Glazko, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
Paul Harrison, McGill University, Canada
Daniel Jeffares, University College London, UK
Dmitri A Kramerov, Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Federation
Manyuan Long, University of Chicago, USA
Qin Ma, University of Georgia, USA
Antonio Marco, University of Essex, UK
Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez, NCBI, NLM, NIH, USA
Satoshi Nagai, Fisheries Research Agency of Japan, National Research Institute of Environment and Inland Sea, Japan
Sheila Nathan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Enrico Negrisolo, University of Padova, Italy
German Nudelman, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Atsushi Ogura, Nagahama Institute of Bioscience and technology, Japan
Bharat Panwar, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, USA
Youri Pavlov, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Eugenia Poliakov, NIH, USA
Dmitry Ravcheev, Universite du Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Umesh Reddy, West Virginia State University, USA
Fredj Tekaia, Institut Pasteur, France
Thiago M Venancio, Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense, Brazil
Zhi Wei, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Gerald Wyckoff, University of Missouri, USA
Anlong Xu, Sun Yat-sen university, China
Vyacheslav Yurchenko, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic 

Eukaryote microbial genomics
Raffaella Maria Balestrini, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Italy
Raúl Castanera, Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics, Spain
Toni Gabaldón, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Guri Giaever, University of Toronto, Canada
Steven Gill, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, USA
Gernot Gloeckner, University of Cologne, Germany
James Hane, Curtin University, Australia
Nevan Krogan, University of California San Francisco, USA
Rohan Lowe, La Trobe University, Australia
Cristina Miceli, University of Camerino, Italy
Diego Mauricio Riano-Pachon, Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Brazil 
Guy-Franck Richard, Institut Pasteur, France
Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University, USA
Christophe Roux, Université de Toulouse, France
Fabiano Sillo, University of Torino, Italy
Paul Stothard, University of Alberta, Canada
Eva Stukenbrock, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany
Xiulian Sun, Wuhan Institute of Virology, China
Jinrong Xu, Purdue University, USA
Jagjit S Yadav, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, USA

Human and rodent genomics
James Adjaye, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Khawla Al-Kuraya, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Saudi Arabia
Nora Benhabiles, CEA, Institut List, France
Matthew E. R. Butchbach, Nemours/Albert I. DuPont Hospital for Children, USA
Roberto Ciccone, Universita degli studi di Pavia, Italy
Sandro J de Souza, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil
Amit Dutt, ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, India
Peter Ellis, University of Kent, UK
Nir Eynon, Victoria University, Australia
Fernando A. Fierro, University of California Davis, USA
Daniel H Geschwind, UCLA School of Medicine, USA
Binsheng Gong, US Food and Drug Administration, USA
Kylie Gorringe, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Joseph Hacia, University of Southern California, USA
Ralf Herwig, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Heinz Himmelbauer, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Spain
Karen Huen, University of California, USA
Takuya Imamura, Kyushu University, Japan
Jos Jonkers, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki, University of Ulm, Germany
Naoya Kenmochi, University of Miyazaki, Japan

Mingfeng Li, Yale University, USA
Yunlong Liu, Indiana University School of Medicine, USA
Jens Marquardt, University of Mainz, Germany
Ichiro Matsumoto, Monell Chemical Senses Center, USA
Tej Pandita, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA
Richard Paules, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
Richard Saffery, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia
Carlos Schrago, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Michael Shapero, Affymetrix, USA
Giovanni Stracquadanio, University of Essex, UK
Kai Tan, University of Iowa, USA
Craig Tomlinson, Dartmouth College, USA
George Trendelenburg, University Medicine Göttingen, Germany
Alessandro Weisz, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy

Hyun Goo Woo, Ajou University, Republic of Korea

Junfeng Xia, Anhui University, China
Nicolae Radu Zabet, University of Essex, UK 
Marc Zapatka, German Cancer Research Center, Germany

Multicellular invertebrate genomics
Erik Andersen, Northwestern University, USA
Julien Ayroles, Princeton University, USA
James Brown, University of California, USA
Susan J Brown, Kansas State University, USA
Diogo Cabral-de-Mello, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Philippe Castagnone-Sereno, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France
Christoph Dieterich, Max Delbrueck Centre, Germany
Elizabeth Duncan, University of Leeds, UK
Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame, USA
Charles A Ettensohn, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Giuliano Gasperi, University of Pavia, Italy
Marco Gerdol, University of Trieste, Italy
David S. Haymer, University of Hawaii, USA
Catherine A Hill, Purdue University, USA
Jan Kammenga, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Michail Kotsyfakis, Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
David M MacAlpine, Duke University Medical Center, USA
Patrick McGrath, Georgia Tech, USA
Amornrat Phongdara, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand
Stephen Richards, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Carlos Saavedra, Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de la Sal - CSIC, Spain
Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA
Denis Tagu, INRA, France
Zhijian (Jake) Tu, Virginia Tech, USA
Christian Voolstra, KAUST University, Saudi Arabia
Robert Waterhouse, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Charles Wondji, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
Shihua Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Non-human and non-rodent vertebrate genomics
Christopher Balakrishnan, East Carolina University, USA
Luca Bargelloni, University of Padova, Italy
Stefan Bauersachs, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Francesca Bertolini, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Fernando Biase, Auburn University, USA
Bruce Bunnell, Tulane University, USA
Mario Caceres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Marcos De Donato, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Johannes Martinus M Dijkstra, Fujita Health University, Japan
Stephen Ekker, Mayo Clinic, USA
Greg Elgar, MRC NIMR, UK
Fugui Fang, Anhui Agricultural University, China
Xiu Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Barbara Gandolfi, University of Missouri, USA
Clare Gill, Texas A&M University, USA
Unni Grimholt, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway
Martien Groenen, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Frank Grutzner, University of Adelaide, Australia
Jennifer Harrow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Jonathan Houseley, The Babraham Institute, UK
Eveline M. Ibeagha-Awemu, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada
Philipp Khaitovich, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Johannes Krause, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Elisabeth Le Bihan-Duval, Unite de Recherches Avicoles, France
Zhanjiang Liu, Auburn University, USA
Joan Lunney, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, USA
Fiona McCarthy, University of Arizona, USA
Mark Parcells, University of Delaware, USA
Heidi Parker, NHGRI/National Institutes of Health, USA
Hubert Pausch, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Francisco Peñagaricano, University of Florida, USA
Ruth Phillips, Washington State University, USA
Sean Place, Sonoma State University, USA
Terje Raudsepp, Texas A&M University, USA
James Reecy, Iowa State University, USA
Mohamed Salem, Middle Tennessee State University, USA 
Warren Snelling, USDA Agricultural Research Service, USA
Torres Sweeney, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jim Thomas, National Institutes of Health, USA
William Ka Fai Tse, Kyushu University, Japan 
Mario Ventura, Universita' degli Studi di Bari, USA
Mick Watson, The Roslin Institute, UK
Yi Xing, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Ning Yang, China Agricultural University, China
Zhe Zhang, South China Agricultural University, China

Plant genomics
Ahmed Afzal, Ohio State University, USA
Madan Bhattacharyya, Iowa State University, USA
Aureliano Bombarely, Virginia Tech, USA 
Hikmet Budak, Sabanci University, Turkey
Malcolm Campbell, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
Hector Candela, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain
Changbin Chen, University of Minnesota, USA
Anne-Marie Chevre, INRA, France
Parveen Chhuneja, Punjab Agricultural University, India
Malay Das, Presidency University, India
Arun Prabhu Dhanapal, University of Missouri, USA
Elisabeth Dirlewanger, INRA, France
Hany El-Shemy, Cairo University, Egypt
Ryo Fujimoto, Kobe University, Japan
Atsushi Fukushima, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Dariusz Grzebelus, University of Agriculture in Krakow, Poland
Hui-Shan Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Bin Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ruifeng He, Washington State University, USA
Jianfei Hu, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Stella K. Kantartzi, Southern Illinois University, USA
Chittaranjan Kole, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, India
Michał Tomasz Kwiatek, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland 
Ping Lan, Institute of Soil Science, China
Jacob Landis, University of California Riverside, USA 
Wenbin Li, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Shuxian Li, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, USA
Zenglu Li, University of Georgia, USA
Jun-Jun Liu, Canadian Forest Service, Canada
Mickael Malnoy, FEM, Italy
Federico Martinelli, University of Palermo, Italy
Klaus Mayer, Helmholtz Center Munich, Germany
Joann Mudge, National Center for Genome Resources, USA
Henry Nguyen, University of Missouri, USA
Shree Pandey, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India
Manuel Ruiz, CIRAD, France
Paul Rushton, South Dakota State University, USA
Qijian Song, Agricultural Research Service, USA 
Weibin Song, China Agricultural University, China
Paulo José Pereira Lima Teixeira, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Javier Terol, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Agrarias, Spain
Lam-Son Tran, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science, Japan
Marie-Anne Van Sluys, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
Praveen Chandra Verma, CSIR-National Botanical Research Institute, India 
Peter G Walley, University of Liverpool, UK
Dirk Walther, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
Andrew J Wood, Southern Illinois University, USA
Xingguo Ye, Institute of Crop Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
Jun Yu, Beijing Institute of Genomics, China
Chen-Yu Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Hongbin Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA
Jianwei Zhang, The University of Arizona, USA
Jinfa Zhang, New Mexico State University, USA
Wei Zhang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Bo Zhou, Northeast Forestry University, China
Andrea Zuccolo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy 

Prokaryote microbial genomics
Jacqueline Batley, University of Western Australia, Australia

Rafael Azevedo Baraúna, Federal University of Pará, Brazil
Scott Beatson, The University of Queensland, Australia
Jeffrey Lawrence Blanchard, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Yanjie Chao, Tufts University, USA
Pieter De Maayer, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Ye Feng, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China
Thilo Fuchs, Technische Universität München, Germany
Victor PJ Gannon, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Isabel Henriques, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Padmanabhan Mahadevan, University of Tampa, USA
Julie Maupin-Furlow, University of Florida, USA
Olivia McAuliffe, Teagasc, Ireland
Ryo Miyazaki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Michelle Clair Moffitt, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Supratim Mukherjee, US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, USA
Sheila Nathan, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia
Bernhard Renard, Robert Koch-Institute, Germany
Dmitry Rodionov, Burnham Institute, USA
Zhi Ruan, Zhejiang University, China
Shanmuga Sozhamannan, Critical Reagents Program, MCS/JPEO, USA
Tina Summerfield, University of Otago, New Zealand
Adel Talaat, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Fabiano Thompson, UFRJ, Brazil
Yihui Yuan, Hainan University, China

Proteomics
Yusuf Akhter, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, India

Tiziana Alberio, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
Jeroen Krijgsveld, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Victoria Pando-Robles, Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica, Mexico
Yasset Perez-Riverol, EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Christoph Ritter, University of Greifswald, Germany
Kelly Ruggles, New York University School of Medicine, USA
Nilesh Tannu, The University of Texas, USA
Guoqiang Xu, Soochow University, China
Yu Xue, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Pingfang Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Hanfa Zou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Transcriptomic methods
Miroslav Blumenberg, New York University, USA 
Sumit Chanda, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, USA
Zhongxue Chen, Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Colin Clarke, NIBRT, Ireland
Carl Ernst, McGill University, Canada
Eduardo Eyras, University Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Martijs Johannes Jonker, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Gokhan Karakulah, Dokuz Eylul University Health Campus, Turkey
Christopher Maher, Washington University School of Medicine, USA
Marcel Schulz, Saarland University, Excellence Cluster for Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Germany
Jun Sese, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Fengzhu Sun, University of Southern California, USA
Zlatko Trajanoski, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Turgay Unver, Cankiri Karatekin University, Turkey
Sagar M Utturkar, Purdue University, USA
Guohua Wang, Center for Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Cen Wu, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, USA
Zhenyu Xuan, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Shihua Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, China
Wei Zhang, The University of Texas, USA
Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University, USA

Editorial Advisors
Kathy Belov, University of Sydney, Australia
Peer Bork, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
Roger Bumgarner, University of Washington, USA
Jean-Michel Claverie, CNRS, France
Antoine Danchin, Institut Pasteur, France
Eric Deutsch, The Institute for Systems Biology, USA
Joel Dudley, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Takashi Gojobori, National Institute of Genetics, Japan
Trevor Hawkins, Amersham Biosciences, USA
Yoshihide Hayashizaki, RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Japan
Des G Higgins, University College Dublin, Ireland
Eivind Hovig, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Norway
Timothy Hughes, University of Toronto, Canada
Stuart K Kim, Stanford University Medical School, USA
Adam Kuspa, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Edison Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
Paul Lyons, University of Cambridge, UK
Arcady Mushegian, National Science Foundation, USA
Charles Perou, University of North Carolina, USA
Norbert Perrimon, Harvard Medical School, USA
Leif Peterson, Houston Methodist Research Institute, USA
John Quackenbush, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
J Sunil Rao, Case Western Reserve University, USA
David Relman, Stanford University, USA
Steven Salzberg, University of Maryland, USA
Paul Sternberg, California Institute of Technology, USA
Mark Stitt, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Germany
Andrew Su, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Marc Vidal, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
K Vijayraghavan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
Martin Vingron, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany
Virginia Walbot, Stanford University, USA
James L Weber, Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, USA
Huntington Willard, Marine Biological Laboratory, USA
Richard K Wilson, Washington University School of Medicine, USA

Statistical Advisors
Joseph Beyene, McMaster University, Canada 
Marco Bink, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Guy Brock, University of Louisville, USA
Douglas Curran-Everett, National Jewish Health, USA
Chindo Hicks, University of Mississippi Medical Centre, USA
Carl Lombard, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa
Cavan Reilly, University of Minnesota, USA
Alex Sanchez-Pla, University of Barcelona, Spain
Xiangfeng Wang, University of Arizona, USA
Kui Zhang, University of Alabama, USA