Bioinformatics Group
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Contact
Monika Wood, M.S. R&D Bioinformatics Promega Corporation 2800 Woods Hollow Rd. Madison, WI 53711 USA Tel: (608) 274-4330 Fax: (608) 277-2601 Email: mailto:mwood@promega.com Website: http://www.promega.com/about/overview/
Bioinformatics Group:
Staff: 1 (myself, since 2001) Client base: ~ 90 R&D scientists (working in reagent development) Areas of support: Sequence analysis (training, consulting) In silico design of synthetic sequences (consulting, service) Molecular modeling and visualization (service) Identification and evaluation of tools and resources for special project needs (consulting, service) Maintenance of website with links to internal and external tools and resources In-house tools supported: Vector NTI Suite, Insight II On-line tools licensed: Transfac database (Biobase), GEMS (Genomatix) Hardware: 1 SGI Octane (IRIX), 1 Sun Ultra 5 (Solaris), all scientists have PCs (Windows) Funding for staff: permanent employee Funding for new tools: R&D budget; becoming a serious problem due to outrageous licensing fees Training: currently on-demand; formal plan needs to be developed soon
Personal Interests:
Biomolecular engineering, directed evolution Protein structure/function, molecular modeling Teaching: "Current Techniques in Protein & Genetic Engineering" course at BTCI (www.btci.org), "Molecular Genetics" course at Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Course offerings:
Promega's private non-profit foundation (www.btci.org) offers Bioinformatics courses organized by Jeff Blanchard of NCGR (former post-doc at Promega).