Integrative Bioinformatics: History and Future

Ming Chen is the Director of the Bioinformatics Laboratory at the College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang University (China). He received his PhD in Bioinformatics from Bielefeld University (Germany). His group research work covers bioinformatics, systems biology, non-coding RNA transcriptomics, and precision medicine. He published over 200 papers on peer-viewed journals. He is the President of the Bioinformatics Society of Zhejiang Province, China; Deputy director of Chinese Society for "Modeling and Simulation of Biological Systems", Committee executive member of Chinese Society for "Computational Systems Biology" and Committee member of Chinese Societies for "Functional Genomics & Systems Biology", "Biomedical Information Technology" and "Biophysics (Bioinformatics) ".

Ralf Hofestädt studied Computer Science and Bioinformatics at the University of Bonn. He finished his PhD in Computer Science (University Bonn) and his Habilitation (Applied Computer Science and Bioinformatics) at the University of Koblenz. He was Professor for Applied Computer Science at the University of Magdeburg. Now he is Professor for Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics at the University Bielefeld. He launched the Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics in early 2000’s. The research topics of the department concentrate on biomedical data management, modeling and simulation of metabolic processes, parallel computing and multimedia implementation of virtual scenarios.