Autor: Björn H. Junker

Björn H. Junker is a biologist with a strong background in bioinformatics. His current research activities include the quantitative analysis and modeling of metabolic networks, as well as pathway databases and visual data mining. Mr. Junker has been at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany since 2003. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York during 2006 and was appointed as project leader at the Leibniz Institute in 2007. Falk Schreiber is a computer scientist who has worked in bioinformatics for more than ten years. His current research areas include modeling, analysis, and visualization of biological networks; graph algorithms; and data exploration and information visualization in the life sciences. Since 2003, he has been head of the Network Analysis Research Group at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research. He was appointed professor of bioinformatics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2007.