About the Authors

Dr. Zoè Lacroix is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. She received a PhD in Computer Science in 1996 from the University of Paris XI (France). Her research interests cover various aspects of data management, and she has published more than 20 journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters. She also has served in numerous conference program committees, organized several panels and workshops, and was an active member in the working groups XML Query Language and XML Forms at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Dr. Lacroix has been involved in bioinformatics for more than 7 years. She has interacted with the Center of Bioinformatics at the University of Pennsylvania and worked for two biotechnology companies, Gene Logic Inc. and SurroMed Inc. Her contributions in bioinformatics include publications, invited talks (Symposium on Bioinformatics organized at the National University of Singapore), and data integration middlewares, such as the Object-Web Wrapper, which is currently used at SmithKlineGlaxo.

Dr. Terence Critchlow is a computer scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and leads the DataFoundry project. His involvement in bioinformatics began more than 7 years ago as part of a collaboration between the University of Utah Computer Science department and the Utah Human Genome Center. Since completing his dissertation and joining LLNL in 1997, he has been an active member of the research community, publishing in both computer science and informatics forums, giving invited talks, participating in program committees, and organizing the XML Enabled Searches in Bioinformatics workshop.