Olga Tarasova graduated from the Pirogov Russian State Medical University in 2008, and received the PhD degree in the mathematical biology and bioinformatics from the Institute of BioMedical Chemistry (IBMC), Moscow, Russia. Currently, she is a senior researcher at Laboratory of Structure-Function Based Drug Design (Department of Bioinformatics) of IBMC (Moscow, Russia). She is currently a member of American Chemical Society. Research interests include bioinformatics, cheminformatics, computer-aided drug design, virology, analysis of virus-host interactions, text and data mining.