John Duperon is the President and co-founder of Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH. John is a computer scientist by training and started Scionics in 2000 to create computer solutions for scientists. Besides providing outsourced IT solutions for companies and academia, Scionics is also the maker of the colony management software PyRAT (www.scionics-inc.com/pyrat). He can be contacted at duperon@scionics-inc.com.