Biographical sketches of authors

Naomi Siew   Department of Chemistry, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 81405, Israel (electronic mail: nomsiew@cs.bgu.ac.il). Ms. Siew received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1994 and a cum laude master's degree in pharmaceutical chemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996. In 1998 she worked at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, under the supervision of Jacquelyn Fetrow and Jeffrey Skolnick. Since 1999 she has been a graduate student at Ben Gurion University under the joint supervision of Joel Bernstein from the Chemistry Department and Daniel Fischer from the Bioinformatics/Computer Science Department. Her current work focuses on sequence ORFans in whole genomes.

Daniel Fischer   Bioinformatics/Computer Science Department, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 81405, Israel (electronic mail: dfischer@cs.bgu.ac.il). Dr. Fischer is an assistant professor at Ben Gurion University where he leads the Bioinformatics Group. His work focuses on protein structure prediction, computational structural biology, computational analysis and interpretation of genomes, and bioinformatics in general. Dr. Fischer received his doctoral degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University in 1994. He has been a successful participant of the CASP, CAFASP, and LiveBench experiments. Since 1975 he has been a computer-chess aficionado, but the last time he beat a computer-chess program was in 1976.