CHRISTINE ORENGO, PhD, is Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London. Dr. Orengo's research focuses on protein structure comparison, classification, and analysis. Her group develops the CATH domain family classification and algorithms for predicting protein functions and functional networks.
ALEX BATEMAN, PhD, is Senior Investigator at Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, where he leads the Pfam database project. Dr. Bateman also participates in the European InterPro project, which seeks to merge the annotations from Pfam, PRINTS, Prosite, and other domain databases.