Dr. Seem Patel is currently a researcher at the Center of bioinformatics and medical informatics at San Diego State University, USA. She has earned her doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India by conducting research on food and pharmaceutical-grade polysaccharide production from natural isolates of lactic acid bacteria. Also, she had held position as an Assistant Professor in biotechnology at Lovely Professional University, India. She has published about 35 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and a book chapter. She serves as reviewer for about 30 international journals. Though she has a microbiology background and is presently involved in bioinformatics research, she is interested in nutraceutical development. This is her maiden endeavour in writing an entire book and she seeks constructive suggestions from experts in this area as well as general readers.