About the editors

Dr Lee Harland is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of ConnectedDiscovery Ltd, a company established to promote and manage precompetitive collaboration within the life science industry. Lee received his BSc (Biochemistry) from the University of Manchester, UK and PhD (Epigenetics and Gene Therapy) from the University of London, UK. Lee has over 13 years of experience leading knowledge management and information integration activities within major pharma. He is also the founder of SciBite.com, an open drug discovery intelligence and alerting service and part of the open PHACTS (http://openphacts.org) initiative to create shared public–private semantic discovery technologies.

Dr Mark Forster is team leader for the Chemical Indexing Unit, within the Syngenta R&D Biological Sciences group. He received his BSc and PhD in Chemistry from the University of London. He has over 25 years of experience in both academic research and in the commercial scientific software domain. His publications have been in diverse fields ranging from NMR spectroscopy, structural biology, simulations, algorithm development and data standards. Mark has been active in personally contributing new open source scientific software, encouraging industrial uptake and donation of open source, and organising workshops and conferences with an open source focus. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of the open PHACTS and other projects.