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Contact
 
Contact
         Monika Wood, M.S.
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         Monika Wood
 
         R&D Bioinformatics
 
         R&D Bioinformatics
 
         Promega Corporation
 
         Promega Corporation
         2800 Woods Hollow Rd.
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         2800 Woods Hollow Road
 
         Madison, WI 53711
 
         Madison, WI 53711
 
         USA
 
         USA
         Tel: (608) 274-4330
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         Tel: +1.608.274.4330
        Fax: (608) 277-2601
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         Email: monika.wood"A@T"promega.com
         Email: mailto:mwood@promega.com
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         Website: http://www.promega.com/aboutus/company-information/
         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 scientists
 
         Areas of support:
 
         Areas of support:
                 Sequence analysis (training, consulting)
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                 Research consulting for biologist and chemists
                 In silico design of synthetic sequences (consulting, service)
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                 Scientific apps support and training
                Molecular modeling and visualization (service)
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                 Development of tools for in-house use
                 Identification and evaluation of tools and resources for special project needs (consulting, service)
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                 Development of tools for external customer use
                 Maintenance of website with links to internal and external tools and resources
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         Hardware:
         In-house tools supported:  
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               1 Molecular Modeling workstation (PC), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
               Vector NTI Suite, Insight II
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         Licensed tools:  
        On-line tools licensed:
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              Discovery Studio, Vector NTI, Lasergene, ChemBioOffice, Scaffold, Genomatix tools
              Transfac database (Biobase), GEMS (Genomatix)
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         Funding model:
        Hardware: 1 SGI Octane (IRIX), 1 Sun Ultra 5 (Solaris), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
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              Salaried staff
         Funding for staff: permanent employee
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         Training:
         Funding for new tools: R&D budget; becoming a serious problem due to outrageous licensing fees
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              On-demand
         Training: currently 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

Latest revision as of 14:43, 14 October 2011

Contact

       Monika Wood
       R&D Bioinformatics
       Promega Corporation
       2800 Woods Hollow Road
       Madison, WI 53711
       USA
       Tel: +1.608.274.4330
       Email: monika.wood"A@T"promega.com
       Website: http://www.promega.com/aboutus/company-information/

Bioinformatics Group:

       Staff: 2
       Client base: ~120 R&D scientists
       Areas of support:
               Research consulting for biologist and chemists
               Scientific apps support and training
               Development of tools for in-house use
               Development of tools for external customer use
       Hardware:
              1 Molecular Modeling workstation (PC), all scientists have PCs (Windows)
       Licensed tools: 
              Discovery Studio, Vector NTI, Lasergene, ChemBioOffice, Scaffold, Genomatix tools
       Funding model:
              Salaried staff
       Training:
              On-demand

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