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         USA
 
         USA
 
         Tel: (608) 274-4330
 
         Tel: (608) 274-4330
        Fax: (608) 277-2601
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         Email: mwood"AT"promega.com
         Email: mailto:mwood@promega.com
 
 
         Website: http://www.promega.com/about/overview/
 
         Website: http://www.promega.com/about/overview/
  
 
Bioinformatics Group:
 
Bioinformatics Group:
         Staff: 1 (myself, since 2001)
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         Staff: 2
         Client base: ~ 90 R&D scientists (working in reagent development)
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         Client base: ~120 R&D biologist and chemists
 
         Areas of support:
 
         Areas of support:
 
                 Sequence analysis (training, consulting)
 
                 Sequence analysis (training, consulting)
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                 Identification and evaluation of tools and resources for special project needs (consulting, 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
 
                 Maintenance of website with links to internal and external tools and resources
         In-house tools supported:  
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         In-house tools:  
               Vector NTI Suite, Insight II
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               Discovery Studio, Vector NTI, Lasergene, ChemOffice, Scaffold, Genomatix tools
        On-line tools licensed:
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         Hardware:
              Transfac database (Biobase), GEMS (Genomatix)
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              1 Molecular Modeling workstation (PC), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
         Hardware: 1 SGI Octane (IRIX), 1 Sun Ultra 5 (Solaris), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
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         Funding model:
         Funding for staff: permanent employee
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              Salaried staff and tools paid by R&D budget
        Funding for new tools: R&D budget; becoming a serious problem due to outrageous licensing fees
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         Training:
         Training: currently on-demand; formal plan needs to be developed soon
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              On-demand; formal plan needs to be developed soon
  
 
Personal Interests:
 
Personal Interests:
 
         Biomolecular engineering, directed evolution
 
         Biomolecular engineering, directed evolution
 
         Protein structure/function, molecular modeling
 
         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:
 
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).
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         Through Promega's private non-profit foundation BTCI http://www.btci.org

Revision as of 12:02, 5 January 2011

Contact

       Monika Wood, M.S.
       R&D Bioinformatics
       Promega Corporation
       2800 Woods Hollow Rd.
       Madison, WI 53711
       USA
       Tel: (608) 274-4330
       Email: mwood"AT"promega.com
       Website: http://www.promega.com/about/overview/

Bioinformatics Group:

       Staff: 2
       Client base: ~120 R&D biologist and chemists
       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: 
              Discovery Studio, Vector NTI, Lasergene, ChemOffice, Scaffold, Genomatix tools
       Hardware:
              1 Molecular Modeling workstation (PC), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
       Funding model:
              Salaried staff and tools paid by R&D budget
       Training:
              On-demand; formal plan needs to be developed soon

Personal Interests:

       Biomolecular engineering, directed evolution
       Protein structure/function, molecular modeling

Course offerings:

       Through Promega's private non-profit foundation BTCI http://www.btci.org