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Editorial Board
Duilio Arigoni
(Switzerland)
Sir Jack E Baldwin
(UK)
Jacqueline K Barton
(USA)
Stephen J Benkovic
(USA)
Ronald Breslow
(USA)
David E Cane
(USA)
Tom Cech
(USA)
Kevin T Chapman
(USA)
Benjamin F Cravatt
(USA)
Anthony W Czarnik
(USA)
Bill DeGrado
(USA)
Anne Dell
(UK)
Peter B Dervan
(USA)
François N Diederich
(Switzerland)
Albert Eschenmoser
(Switzerland)
David A Evans
(USA)
Sir Alan Fersht
(UK)
Michael H Gelb
(USA)
Harry B Gray
(USA)
Richard Holm
(USA)
Barbara Imperiali
(USA)
Bryan Jones
(Canada)
Gerald F Joyce
(USA)
Chaitan Khosla
(USA)
Judith P Klinman
(USA)
Thomas Kodadek
(USA)
Kenji Koga
(Japan)
Toyoki Kunitake
(Japan)
Horst Kunz
(Germany)
Peter F Leadlay
(UK)
Jean-Marie Lehn
(France)
Stephen J Lippard
(USA)
Klaus Mueller
(Switzerland)
Koji Nakanishi
(USA)
KC Nicolaou
(USA)
Tom O’Halloran
(USA)
Glenn D Prestwich
(USA)
Larry Que
(USA)
Julius Rebek, Jr
(USA)
David N Reinhoudt
(Netherlands)
Janos Rétey
(Germany)
Alanna Schepartz
(USA)
Stuart L Schreiber
(USA)
Peter G Schultz
(USA)
W Clark Still
(USA)
Saul Tendler
(UK)
Andrew J Thomson
(UK)
Joan Selverstone Valentine
(USA)
Greg Verdine
(USA)
Christopher T Walsh
(USA)
Chi-Huey Wong
(USA)
2005 Contents
The subject of chemical biology is divided into
nine major sections, each of which is reviewed
once a year. Each issue contains one or two of the
sections, and the amount of space devoted to each
section is related to its importance.
February
Proteomics and genomics
Edited by Benjamin F Cravatt and Thomas Kodadek
April
Biocatalysis and biotransformation
Edited by Uwe Bornscheuer and Dan Robertson
Bioinorganic chemistry
Edited by Elizabeth Theil and Holden Thorp
June
Combinatorial chemistry
Edited by Prabhat Arya and Hans-Joerg Roth
August
Next-generation therapeutics
Edited by Chris Vlahos and Michael Coghlan
October
Mechanisms
Edited by Rowena Mathews and
Christopher Walsh
Analytical techniques
Edited by Chris Geddes and
Ramachandram Badugu
December
Biopolymers
Edited by Scott Strobel and Tom Muir
Model systems
Edited by Paolo Scrimin and Lars Baltzer
Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
Editors Donald Hilvert
Switzerland
Carolyn Bertozzi
USA
Vol 9 No 4 August 2005
DOI 10.1016/S1367-5931(05)00094-3