Anatoly Sorokin University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, United Kingdom (asorokininf.ed.ac.uk). Dr. Sorokin is a Research Fellow in the Computational Systems Biology Group at the University of Edinburgh. In 1995 he received an M.Sc. degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 2000 a Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Experimental and Theoretical Biophysics, Pushchino, Russia. In 1998, Dr. Sorokin began work in the Institute of Cell Biophysics in Pushchino, where he focused on the prediction and analysis of physical properties of DNA.

Kirill Paliy Gazetnyj Lane, Building 100, Apartment 104, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia (kirillempproject.com). In 1994, Mr. Paliy graduated with an M.Sc. degree in software engineering from the Rostov State University of Railway Transportation. From 2002 to 2006, he worked for EMP Project, Inc. as a software development consultant. He made significant contributions to the current state of the Edinburgh Pathway Editor.

Alexey Selkov EMP Project, Inc., 1409 Heatherton Drive, Naperville, Illinois 60563 (asempproject.com). Mr. Selko has led the EMP Project effort since 1999. From 1988 to 1998, as a project leader, he built various large networking infrastructures for government and private companies.

O. V. Demin A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Leninskie Gory, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia (demingenebee.msu.su). Dr. Demin received his M.S. degree and his Ph.D. degree, both in biophysics, in 1992 and 1995 from Moscow State University. In 1996, he began work in the Bioenergetics Department of the A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology. Since 1999, he has been the head of the Kinetic Modeling of Complex Biochemical Systems Group. Dr. Demin's current interests include development of software for the mathematical simulation and analysis of cellular metabolism and regulation.

Serge Dronov GlaxoSmithKline, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage SG1 2NY, United Kingdom (serge.dronovgsk.com). In 1994, Mr. Dronov received his M.S. degree in applied mathematics and computer science from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia; he is currently working toward a Ph.D. degree in biophysics. In 2000, following his postgraduate research at the Institute of Biophysics and work on information systems for the Russian Academy of Science, he joined the Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling Group at GlaxoSmithKline's Research and Development organization in the UK, where he worked on large-scale cell simulations. Mr. Dronov's research interests include systems biology, modeling of biological pathways, numerical methods for solving differential equations, optimization techniques, and graph theory algorithms. He has a strong information-technology background and experience in scientific software and database development.

Peter Ghazal Scottish Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics, University of Edinburgh Medical School, The Chancellor's Building, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, United Kingdom (P. Ghazaled.ac.uk). Dr. Ghazal is Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, Adjunct Professor at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, and the founding director of the Scottish Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics. Before holding these positions, Dr. Ghazal was Associate Professor at the Scripps Research Institute in California and a Fellow of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. He was also a Scholar of the American Leukemia Society. He has several patents in the area of engineering and biology, is a cofounder of two companies, and has published more than 100 refereed papers. Dr. Ghazal's research interests focus on regulatory networks and host pathogen interactions. He is also a member of a number of advisory boards and committees for several industry, academic, and government bodies in the UK, EU, USA, and Canada.

Igor Goryanin University of Edinburgh, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9LE, United Kingdom (goryanininf.ed.ac.uk). Professor Goryanin is the Henrik Kacser Chair in Computational Systems Biology and Director of the Edinburgh Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is well known as an author of DBsolve, one of the first software packages for modeling and simulation of cellular networks. Dr. Goryanin recently worked at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), focusing on the areas of bioinformatics and informatics. At GSK, he was head of the Cell Simulations and Pathway Modeling Group. Prior to his affiliation with industry, Dr. Goryanin worked at the Institute of Biophysics and the Russian Academy of Science. He was also a visiting scientist at Argonne National Laboratories. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1995 from the Institute of Biophysics in Russia, where he worked on the automation of multienzyme systems modeling, using a databank of enzymes and metabolic pathways. He received an M.Sc. degree in 1985, as an applied mathematician, from the Computer Science Department of the Moscow Engineering Physical Institute (MEPHI), where he developed numerical methods and algorithms for the analysis of stiff ordinary differential equations. More recently, Dr. Goryanin has established several collaborations between industry and academia, including the first International Alliance on Systems Biology of E. coli (IECA), where he is a member of the steering committee. He also holds a position as a visiting professor in the Biochemical Engineering Department of University College, London.