Dante Aligheiri Schettini is a Professor of Bioinformatics at Nottingham Trent University and CSO of CompanDX UK and CompanDX China Ltd. He is an Associate Director of the John Van Geest Cancer Research Centre and Biostatistics Lead on three clinical projects. He has been involved in the development and validation of bioinformatics algorithms using artificial neural networks for the last 18 years. He has 230 journal papers and five patents in this area.