Editorial Board
Executive Editors
Janet Kelso
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-322X
Inanc Birol
Genome Sciences Centre
Vancouver, Canada
Areas of expertise: sequence analysis, sequence assembly, genomics, metagenomics, transcriptomics
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-7839
Editorial Office
Alison Hutchins
[email protected]
Associate Editors
Can Alkan (-2026)
Bilkent University
Ankara, Turkey
Areas of expertise: high throughput sequencing, genome analysis, sequence analysis, genome variation, assembly, hardware acceleration (GPGPUs, FPGAs, processing-in-memory).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5443-0706
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Laura Cantini (-2025)
Institut Pasteur
Paris, France
Areas of expertise: single-cell genomics, multi-omics integration, machine learning and network analysis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6360-4440
Jianlin Cheng (-2027)
University of Missouri
Columbia, Missouri, US
Areas of expertise: machine learning, protein bioinformatics, 3D genomics, gene regulatory networks, and cryo-EM
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0305-2853
Lenore Cowen (-2027)
Tufts University
Medford, MA, US
Areas of expertise: algorithms; protein sequence, structure, and function; protein interaction; networks
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6698-6413
Arne Elofsson (-2025)
Science for Life Laboratory and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of expertise: Protein structure prediction
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7115-9751
Xin Gao (-2025)
Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
Areas of expertise: protein design, protein structure prediction, drug development, AI/machine learning, long-reads sequencing, biomedical imaging, polygenic risk score, molecular diagnosis.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7108-3574
Bjoern Gruening
University of Freiburg, Department of Computer Science, Freiburg, Germany
Areas of expertise: software and pipelines, bioinformatics infrastructure
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3079-6586
Christina Kendziorski (-2026)
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI, US
Areas of expertise: statistical and computational genomics, computational biology, Bayesian methods
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0700-6267
Zhiyong Lu (- 2025)
National Institutes of Health*
Bethesda, MD, US
Areas of expertise: data and text mining; information retrieval; machine learning; database curation and ontologies; and clinical imaging analysis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-916X
*Dr. Lu is serving in his personal capacity.
Pier Luigi Martelli (-2025)
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy
Areas of expertise: Machine learning; Protein structure, function, interaction and localization; Effect of genetic variations on protein structure, function and stability. Relation between genotype and phenotype.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0274-5669
Anthony Mathelier (-2025)
Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway, University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Areas of expertise: transcription factors, miRNAs, gene regulation, genomics, cancer, machine learning, ChIP-seq, DNA methylation.
https://mathelierlab.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-5459
Macha Nikolski (-2025)
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab, IBGC / CNRS
Bordeaux, France
Areas of expertise: genomics, omics data analysis, networks, cancer, machine learning / AI, microscopy image analysis
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6059-577X
Yann Ponty (-2027)
CNRS & Ecole Polytechnique
Palaiseau, France
Areas of expertise: RNA, discrete algorithms, structural bioinformatics (protein and RNA), comparative genomics
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7615-3930
Peter N. Robinson (-2025)
The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
Berlin Institute of Health
Berlin, Germany
Areas of expertise: ontologies, genomics algorithms, exome/genome sequencing, chip-seq, RNA-seq, translational/medical bioinformatics
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0736-9199
Russell Schwartz (-2025)
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, US
Areas of expertise: phylogenetics, genomic algorithms, cancer biology, biophysics
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-2252
Jonathan Wren (-2026)
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Oklahoma City, OK, US
Areas of expertise: transcriptional networks, systems biology, data and text mining, databases and ontologies
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2776-3545
Honorary Editors
Alex Bateman
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Cambridge, UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6982-4660
Martin Bishop
Cambridge, UK
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3357-1531
Christos Ouzounis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
School of Informatics
Thessaloniki, Greece
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0086-8657
Chris Sander
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Cancer Center
Boston, MA, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6059-6270
Gary Stormo
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
Saint Louis, MO, US
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6896-1850
Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, ICREA
Barcelona, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8937-6789
Editorial Board
Rolf Backofen
Freiburg Institut für Informatik:
Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8231-3323
Vineet Bafna
UC San Diego
San Diego, CA, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5810-6241
Niko Beerenwinkel
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0573-6119
Valentina Boeva
ETH Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland
Areas of expertise: genomics, cancer, epigenetics, and machine learning
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4382-7185
Cedric Chauve
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9837-1878
Rayan Chikhi
Institut Pasteur & CNRS
Paris, France
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1099-8735
Joaquin Dopazo
Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe (CIPF)
Valencia, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3318-120X
Dimitrij Frishman
Technische Universität München
Munich, Germany
Jan Gorodkin
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5823-4000
Wolfgang Huber
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0474-2218
Lars Juhl Jensen
University of Copenhagen
Copenhagen, Denmark
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7885-715X
Igor Jurisica
Toronto Western Research Institute
Toronto, ON, Canada
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2507-946X
Lukasz Kurgan
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-0314
Nuria Lopez-Bigas
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Barcelona, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4925-8988
Tobias Marschall
Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf, Germany
Areas of expertise: computational genomics, sequence analysis, structural variation, genome assembly, pangenomics, haplotype reconstruction
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9376-1030
Peter Park
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, US
USA
Rob Patro
University of Maryland
College Mark, MD, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8463-1675
David Posada
Universidade de Vigo
Vigo, Galicia, Spain
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1407-3406
Nataša Pržulj
University College London
London, UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1290-853X
Aaron Quinlan
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1756-0859
Predrag Radivojac
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, US
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6769-0793
Johannes Soeding
Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Göttingen, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-8244
Vera van Noort
KU Leuven
Leuven, Belgium
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8436-6602
Martin Vingron
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
Berlin, Germany
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-4241
Mihaela Zavolan
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8832-2041
