David P Judge is a Computer Scientist that teaches Bioinformatics since 1985. He runs the Bioinformatics Teaching Facilty housed at the Department of Genetics in the University of Cambridge, providing the necessary environment for graduate and undergraduate courses, on top of a comprehensive training programme in cooperation with the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He teaches Bioinformatics in many international training programmes and regularly in many places in Europe, Asia, Africa and America. His course notes and exercises are well known in the international community of Bioinformatics users.

Phil Cunningham is the Senior Bioinformatics Officer at King's College University of London.

Phil has been supporting KCL Biomedical scientists for well over 20 years after graduating in Biochemistry at Sussex University (1969). During his post graduate studies at Sussex he was introduced to computers (1971) and has been involved in "biological computing" ever since. A Post Graduate Certificate in Education (1976) ensured a fuller awareness of the extra difficulties involved in teaching (as opposed to learning) scientific material and this has proved invaluable in the last decade and a half whilst teaching bioinformatics to KCL undergraduates. Phil has also taught in several courses in Portugal, in the GTPB and the University of Minho, Braga.

Pedro Fernandes graduated in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at IST (U.T. Lisboa). He worked in Biomedical Engineering, Biophysics and Physiology and changed to Bioinformatics in 1990. He established the first user community in Portugal around the national service provided by the portuguese node of the EMBnet. In 1998 he created the Gulbenkian Training Programme in Bioinformatics, providing user skills to more then 950 course attendees throughout its nine years of existance. In 2002 he designed a Masters Programme in Bioinformatics in cooperation with Mario Silva from the University of Lisboa. In 2006 he launched a new service based on a High Performance Computing platform. He teaches Bioinformatics both in graduate and undergraduate programmes.