Director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. After receiving his B.S. in Chemistry from UCBerkeley in 1965, he went on to the University of Wisconsin at Madison to earn his M.S. in Physics and his Ph.D. in Biophysics under the direction of Dr. Roland Rueckert. From 1969-1973, he carried out postdoctoral research at Yale University in the laboratory of Donald Marvin where he worked on the structure and cell penetration of the filamentous phage fd. His bioinformatics research goals over the next several years include the improvement of intrinsic disorder predictions, especially with respect to identifying different types of disorder (flavors) and then to understand the relationships between the different types of disorder and protein function, i.e., to understand flavor-function relationships.