Dr. Darrell Ricke to Enhance TimeLogic's Biocomputing Vision Through Appointment to Scientific Advisory Board.Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers BIOWIRE2K CRYSTAL BAY, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2002 TimeLogic Corporation appoints Darrell O. Ricke, Ph.D., Bioinformatics Director of Paragon Bioinformatics, to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). With broad industry experience in novel gene identification through integrative genomic analysis techniques, Dr. Ricke has been a leader in bioinformatics for over a decade. While a member of the Center for Human Genome Studies (CHGS CHGS Charges CHGS Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies CHGS Center for Human Genome Studies ), Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) (previously known at various times as Site Y, Los Alamos Laboratory, and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) is a United States Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National (LANL LANL - Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA. ), Dr. Ricke discovered the causative gene for the human disease Familial Mediterranean Fever Familial Mediterranean Fever Definition Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an inherited disorder of the inflammatory response characterized by recurring attacks of fever, accompanied by intense pain in the abdomen, chest, or joints. in collaboration with the FMF FMF 1. Familial Mediterranean fever 2. Fetal movement felt 3. Forced mid-expratory flow 4. Free molecular flow Consortium (Cell 90: 797-807 (1997)). Dr. Ricke identified this gene using novel bioinformatics gene discovery software (SCAN - Sequence Comparison Analysis), which he developed at LANL. As Bioinformatics Director of Paragon Bioinformatics, Dr. Ricke is currently focused on developing a broad range of powerful bioinformatics tools and techniques for the benefit of science and human health. He holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science, and has numerous publications in leading scientific journals. "Dr. Ricke brings high-caliber bioinformatics expertise and vision to TimeLogic," said Rick MacDonald, TimeLogic's President and COO. "He will be of great value as TimeLogic further expands its scope of accelerated biocomputing Biocomputing can mean at least two different things:
Regarding his appointment to TimeLogic's SAB, Dr. Ricke said, "TimeLogic's strategy and DeCypher product are extremely well positioned for the evolving bioinformatics market. I look forward to helping TimeLogic continue to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery." Jim Lindelien, TimeLogic's Founder and CTO, adds, "We are very excited and pleased to have the opportunity to work more closely with Dr. Ricke. His intimate knowledge of DeCypher's capabilities coupled with industry leading insight into the informatics-based drug discovery process make him an ideal addition to our SAB." About TimeLogic: TimeLogic produces DeCypher(R), a high-performance bioinformatics engine for accelerating life science discovery computations, such as BLAST, Smith-Waterman, Framesearch and Hidden Markov Model A hidden Markov model (HMM) is a statistical model in which the system being modeled is assumed to be a Markov process with unknown parameters, and the challenge is to determine the hidden parameters from the observable parameters. analysis. Its revolutionary DeCypher product compresses the computing power of a large-scale server farm into a single Sun Microsystems or Dell server through the use of reconfigurable Field Programmable Gate Array See FPGA. (FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. ) technology. By reducing the time for complex computation from months to days, TimeLogic's solution empowers scientists to tackle demanding genomic analysis projects, redefining expectations of what is realistic and economically and scientifically accomplishable. DeCypher is utilized worldwide by over 50 top biotechnology, government and pharmaceutical institutions, and has been accelerating the pace of bioinformatics discovery since 1996. TimeLogic's main offices are at 22 State Route 28, Crystal Bay, NV 89402. For further information, see the company's Web site at http://www.timelogic.com or contact Christopher Hoover, Marketing Manager (Tel. 775-832-3104, chrish@timelogic.com). |
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