Dr Joo Chuan Tong is a Senior Scientist at the A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Dr. Tong has won numerous awards, including the MIT TR35 Award in 2008 and Singapore Youth Award (Science and Technology) in 2009, and is the only Asian on the Senior Innovation Advisory Board of Pfizer Inc, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, at their world headquarters in New York, USA. Professor Shoba Ranganathan is Chair Professor of Bioinformatics at Macquarie University, Australia. She is Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore. Her research focusses on bioinformatics analysis at the genome, transcriptome and proteome levels. She holds a doctorate in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and has trained in biocomputing at the Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique in Paris and at the University of New Orleans, USA . She was the first Australian Director elected to the Board of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and is currently the President, Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBionet) and Steering Committee member of the International Immunomics Society.