Bioinformatics Group

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