El-Ghazali Talbi, PhD, is a Full Professor in the Computer Science Laboratory at the Université de Lille, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique in France. Dr. Talbi has contributed to numerous publications in international journals and conferences and has organized many workshops and sessions discussing parallel and distributed computing for bioinformatics.

Albert Y. Zomaya, PhD, is the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internet-working in the School of Information Technologies at the University of Sydney. He also serves as Deputy Director for the Sydney University Biological Informatics and Technology Center and is the author or coauthor of several books and publications.