In Memory of Vladimir B. Bajic (1952–2019)

the editorial board of GPB in 2012 and had been devoting his precious time and efforts to handling and reviewing manuscripts and providing many valuable instructions and suggestions in improving journal quality and readership as well. Here, we, former colleagues and friends at the GPB Editorial Board, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (BIG, CAS), Bioinformatics Institute A*STAR, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and in the wider scientific community, wish to pay our highest tribute to Prof. Bajic and recognize his achievements as scientist, mentor, teacher, and leading science administrator. Prof. Bajic was born on 24 February, 1952. He was educated in the field of electrical engineering sciences, obtained his Master’s degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, and later his Ph.D. doctoral degree from the University of Zagreb, Croatia in 1989. He, right after, served as Professor and Director of Centre for Engineering Research and Department of Electronic Engineering, Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa. Since 2001, he had worked in different industrial and academic institutions, such as serving as the Head of the Knowledge Extraction Laboratory of the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) in Singapore, and Professor of Bioinformatics, Acting and Deputy Director of the South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town in South Africa. In 2009, Prof. Bajic was appointed to be the founding Director and Professor of Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) at KAUST and had been heavily involved in the