About the Author: Konstantin V. Balakin is Head of the Laboratory of Information Technology in Medicinal Chemistry at the Institute of Physiologically Active Compounds at the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also Director of the scientific consortium "Orchemed" (Organic Chemistry and Medicine), which currently includes 11 Russian academic institutes working in the field of organic, medicinal and biological chemistry, and drug discovery. Previously, he was Head of the Computational Chemistry Department at ChemDiv, Inc.¿Dr. Balakin¿is the author or coauthor of more than 90 peer reviewed research articles, reviews, and book chapters. He is the principal developer of the SmartMining and InformaGenesis software tools, which are special programs for pharmaceutical multivariate data mining.