Joanna S. Albala is Senior Biomedical Scientist, Biology and Biotechnology Research Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California. The author, coauthor, or editor of numerous professional publications, Dr. Albala is the recipient of a National Cancer Institute Shannon Award, the National Institutes of Health R01 Award, the California Breast Cancer Research Program New Investigator Award, and two BioSTAR Awards from the University of California. She received the Ph.D. degree (1994) from The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, New York. Ian Humphery-Smith is Founding Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Proteomics, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Dr. Humphery-Smith holds several patents and serves on the editorial boards of Electrophoresis, Physiological Genomics, Proteomics, and other journals. He was a leader in efforts to establish the Human Proteome Organization to promote the next phase of the Human Genome Project. Until recently, he was CEO of Glaucus Proteomics B.V. and was voted a leader in technology change by Time magazine (2001). He received the Ph.D. degree (1984) in parasitology from the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia.