Cho-Yi Chen is an Olympic swimmer, a bioinformatician, and a computational biologist. He majored in computer science and later devoted himself to biomedical research. Cho-Yi Chen received his MS and PhD degrees in bioinformatics, genomics, and systems biology from National Taiwan University. He was a founding member of the Taiwan Society of Evolution and Computational Biology and is now a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. As an active scientist and a software developer, Cho-Yi Chen strives to advance our understanding of cancer and other human diseases.

Giovanni M. Dall'Olio is a bioinformatician with a background in human population genetics and cancer. He maintains a personal blog on bioinformatics tips and best practices at http://bioinfoblog.it. Giovanni was one of the early moderators of Biostar, a Q&A on bioinformatics (http://biostars.org/). He is also a Python enthusiast and was a co-organizer of the Barcelona Python Meetup community for many years.

After earning a PhD in human population genetics at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, he moved to King's College London, where he applies his knowledge and programming skills to the study of cancer genetics. He is also responsible for the maintenance of the Network of Cancer Genes (http://ncg.kcl.ac.uk/), a database of system-level properties of genes involved in cancer.