Biographical sketches of authors

Yong Duan   Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 (electronic mail: yduan@udel.edu). Dr. Duan received a Ph.D. degree in 1996 from the University of Pittsburgh and did postdoctoral work at the University of California at San Francisco from 1996 to 2000. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Delaware. His research is in the areas of computational biochemistry and computational biophysics, protein folding, and molecular recognition.

Peter A. Kollman   Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143-0446 (electronic mail: pak@cgl.ucsf.edu). Dr. Kollman received his B.A. degree from Grinnell College and, in 1970, his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University. After a year as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) postdoctoral fellow at Cambridge University in England, he joined the faculty of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California at San Francisco, where he has worked until the present time. In 1995, he received the Computers in Chemistry award from the American Chemical Society.