Kayhan Erciyes holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Electrical Engineering and Electronics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England, an M.Sc. degree in Electronic Control Engineering from the University of Salford, England and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Ege University, Turkiye with part of the Ph.D. study realized at Edinburgh University, Scotland. He has worked as a professor in a number of institutions including Ege University, Yasar University, Uskudar University, Izmir Institute of Technology , UC Davis, Oregon State University, and California State University San Marcos. He is currently working at Computer Engineering Dept. Yaşar University, İzmir, and has published several books including Distributed and Sequential Algorithms for Bioinformatics by Springer Computational Biology Series. His research interests are broadly in graph theory and its applications in bioinformatics and brain networks, and parallel and distributed algorithms. Tuba Sevimoglu holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University, Turkiye, an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from Florida International University, USA, and a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from Marmara University, Turkiye. She is currently a professor of Bioengineering at University of Health Sciences in Istanbul, Turkiye. Her research interests include bioinformatics approaches to analyzing big data, gene expression, biological networks and the bioinformatics of genetic, neurodegenerative, and autoimmune diseases.