Bio-sketch: Vladimir Brusic is a Professor of Bioinformatics and Database Management at the University of Queensland (School of Land and Food Sciences and Institute for Molecular Bioscience) in Brisbane, Australia. He received a PhD from LaTrobe University, Australia. He holds BEng (Mech.), MEng (Biomed.), MAppSci(InfoTech), and MBA degrees. He also has a honorary doctorate from the Semmelweis University School of Medicine, Budapest, Hungary. Dr Brusic has pioneered the fields of immunoinformatics and immunomics and is the founding Vice-president of the International Immunomics Society. His research interests include biological databases, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics with applications to immunology, and vaccine research. Prof. Brusic has developed novel computational solutions for immunology, published more than 120 scientific articles and several biological databases. He has given more than 20 keynote or plenary talks at national and international conferences. His main contributions include the design and publication of first database of MHC-binding peptides, the first application of machine learning techniques to the prediction of MHC-binding peptides, and the first application of genetic algorithms in the field of molecular immunology. V. Brusic defined several new biological concepts including the definition of TAP-efficient vs TAP-inefficient HLA class I molecules, of supertype-specific HLA T-cell epitope hot-spots, and of allergen networks. Contact: Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4072, QLD, Australia. Email: v.brusic@uq.edu.au