XWeave was started in 2002 by Mark Graves.
Mark Graves has been involved in software development
for over fifteen years and in some aspect of database
development for most of that time. He has a PhD in
Computer Science from University
of Michigan where his research was in knowledge
base design. The past nine years he has worked in
bioinformatics, including a DOE Distinguished Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Baylor
College of Medicine (BCM). For two years, he was
an Instructor at BCM where he developed software and
research database management systems to support the
Human Genome Project. For the past five years, he
has been working in the biotech and pharmaceutical
industry. He is also the author of the book Designing
XML Databases from Prentice
Hall.