Our Contributors From All Over The Internet

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Wolfram Altenhofen is a PostDoc at the Drug Design research group of the BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany. He is interested in characterizing ligand-receptor interactions using biophysical and molecular biology methods as well as computer modelling. E-Mail: wolfram.altenhofen@basf-ag.de

David Croke teaches genetics at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland. He works on the molecular genetics of inherited metabolic diseases, especially galactosaemia and phenylketonuria. E-Mail: dtcroke@rcsi.ie

Iddo Friedberg is a graduate student in the Department of Chemical Biology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He is researching the production of steroids in mammalian reproductive tissues. To that end he is using molecular biology methods, as well as a self-developed microscopy image-analysis system. E-Mail: idoerg@shum.cc.huji.ac.il

Georg Fuellen is a PhD student at the Research Group in Practical Computer Science, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is investigating methods for identifying phylogenetic information, and thereby improving multiple alignments. In his spare time, he organizes Biocomputing Courses on the Internet. E-Mail: fuellen@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

Gustavo Glusman is a biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. He analyses the genomic structure and evolution of clusters of olfactory receptor genes. He is a VSNS-Organizer, founder of BioMOO, a virtual meeting place for biologists and teaching site of GNA-VSNS, and a technical advisor to the GNA. E-Mail: bmgustav@bioinfo.weizmann.ac.il

Alessandro Guffanti is a junior research fellow at TIGEM , Milano, Italy, a research center focused on the mapping, cloning and characterization of genes involved in human genetic diseases. His primary roles are user support for scientists and research in database searching methods. E-Mail: guffanti@tigem.it

Peter Hjelmström is an MD/PhD student at the Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He is interested in the molecular genetics of the autoimmune disease myasthenia gravis. E-Mail: Peter.Hjelmstrom@medks.ki.se

Michael Lappe is an M.Sc. student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Paderborn, Germany. He is writing his thesis in the field of multiple alignment algorithms. Further interests are in the simulation and visualisation of biochemical reactions, algorithmic learning and structure prediction. E-Mail: lst@uni-paderborn.de. Michael Lappe contributed the background image and helped with almost everything else.

Chin Hoon Lau is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Visiting from Malaysia, he is studying the relationship between drug conjugation, transport and toxicity. Besides thesis research, he has an interest in biocomputing, and in observing the development of science in Southeast Asia. E-Mail: medp4062@leonis.nus.sg

Ulf Reimer is a PhD student at the "Enzymology of peptide bonds " research group of the Max Planck Society in Halle/Saale, Germany. He investigates dynamics and structures of proline-containing peptides by NMR spectroscopy. He is interested in using methods of "Biocomputing". E-Mail: ulf@cis.biochemtech.uni-halle.de

Alexander Sczyrba is an undergraduate bioinformatics student at the Computer Science Department, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is interested in alignment algorithms and protein structure prediction. WWW: Email Address. Alexander Sczyrba contributed the Java-animations and helped in completing the layout.

Joelle Thonnard is an MD specialist in clinical biology and an immulogist at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. She is training herself in biocomputing, mainly sequence comparison. E-Mail: thonnard@lbcm.ucl.ac.be

David Wild is a biophysicist at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA. His research interests are the development of computational tools and techniques for structural molecular biology, and crystallographic computing. E-Mail: wild@sbl.salk.edu

Ju-Seog Lee contributed some wonderful animated gifs, Paolo Romano and David Steffen are thanked for providing the Italy and US mirrors, Mandy Caird and Peter Serocka have given us valuable comments about the design, Christian Frosch has provided a lot of administrative assistance, Stefanie Lanfermann and Chris Büschking did a lot of proofreading, and David Atherton and Nikolaj Blom are thanked for their technical assistance. The software package Rasmol was used to prepare the DNA and Protein images.

The Fine Print / Copyright. At this moment, no detailed copyright policy has been worked out, so please inquire if you would like to reproduce this material for other than personal use. The Virtual School of Natural Sciences BioComputing Division has obtained copyright transfers via Fax/Postal Mail from all contributors, who acknowledged that ``permissions for all artwork that appears in the work have been acquired by the author prior to submitting the work.''
The animated gifs (the moving DNA on the homepage, and the moving guanine) are used with permission from the author, Ju-Seog Lee (jslee@utdallas.edu). The graphics in the description of the course were donated by Nikolaj Blom (nikob@glyco.cbs.dtu.dk) and Michael Lappe. The graphics in the Fun Page were obtained from the Internet as follows: The magician and the hurdles are from the Icon Depot, whose maintainer states ``All Icons are Free for NON PROFIT USE ONLY ON HOMEPAGES''. The knight was obtained from the public icon archive at LIFA. The fire was obtained from the Icon Browser public archive.

Georg Fuellen and Alexander Sczyrba
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