| Organiser: | Sándor Pongor (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) | 
  
    | Faculty: | Martin Bishop (UK HGMP Research Centre, Cambridge, UK) | 
  
    | Marie-Claude Blatter   (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland) | 
  
    | Minoru Kanehisa (Kyoto University, Japan) | 
  
    | David Judge (University of Cambridge, UK) | 
  
    | David Landsman (NLM-NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) | 
  
    | Jack Leunissen (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) | 
  
    | James Watson (European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK) | 
  
  
    | Assistants: | Dario Palmisano (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) | 
  
    | Diego 
      Soldano  (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) | 
  
    | Mircea Păcurar  (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) | 
  
    | Somdutta Dhir (ICGEB, Trieste, Italy) | 
  
  
    | Topics: | Genome and proteome databases | 
  
    | Analysis of protein and DNA sequences | 
  
    | Similarity searching, alignments | 
  
    | Sequence phylogeny | 
  
    | WWW-based services | 
  
    | Genome projects, functional genomics |