Biographical sketch of author

William C. Swope   IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, California 95120 (electronic mail: swope@almaden.ibm.com). Dr. Swope is a research staff member currently helping with the Blue Gene Protein Science project. He started his career in IBM at IBM Instruments, Inc., an IBM subsidiary that developed scientific instrumentation, where he worked in an advanced processor design group. He also worked for six years at the IBM Scientific Center in Palo Alto, California, where he helped IBM customers develop software for numerically intensive scientific applications. In 1992 Dr. Swope joined the IBM Research Division at Almaden, where he has been involved in software development for computational chemistry applications and in technical data management for petroleum and life sciences applications. He obtained his undergraduate degree in chemistry and physics from Harvard University and his Ph.D. degree in quantum chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He then performed postdoctoral research on the statistical mechanics of condensed phases in the chemistry department at Stanford University. He maintains a number of scientific relationships and collaborations with academic and commercial scientists involved in the life sciences and, in particular, drug development.