REPEAT/ Structural Bioinformatics Inc. elects Dr. Myra Nicol Williams to scientific advisory board.SAN DIEGO--(HealthWire)--Jan. 16, 1997--Structural Bioinformatics Inc. (SBI SBI Special Background Investigation SBI Subsidiary Body for Implementation SBI State Bank of India SBI Secure Border Initiative SBI Small Business Institute SBI Stockholm Brain Institute SBI Serious Bacterial Infection SBI Society of Breast Imaging ), San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , developer of leading edge supercomputer-based technology for rapid conversion of novel gene sequence information into protein structural information and drug lead compounds, announced that Dr. Myra Nicol Williams has joined its Scientific Advisory Board of leading bioinformatics, protein structure, and internationally recognized pharmaceutical industry experts. Williams recently retired from Glaxo Wellcome Plc where she was vice president of Worldwide R&D Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. . Prior to the merger with Wellcome, Williams was vice president and chief information officer at Glaxo Inc. She also worked in an executive capacity at Merck & Co. Inc. for more than 20 years. Williams holds a Ph.D. in molecular biophysics This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. from Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was . "With her background in bioinformatics and related information technologies, and molecular biophysics, Dr. Williams will make important contributions to Structural Bioinformatics Structural bioinformatics refers to the branch of bioinformatics which is related to the analysis and prediction of the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules such as proteins. as we continue to expand our 4-D protein structural database and rapid non-peptide drug lead molecule generation technologies," said Edward T. Maggio, chairman and chief executive officer of SBI. "Dr. Williams pioneered and led the development of Glaxo Wellcome's renowned global information systems and played a major role in the management of Glaxo Wellcome's R&D strategy. "Dr. Williams' perspective on the role and importance of information technologies in the pharmaceutical industry will be invaluable in helping SBI address the rapidly changing paradigm to drug discovery spawned by the food of genomics data emerging from the Human Genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal + X + Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. Project and related high speed sequencing efforts." Structural Bioinformatics has developed a supercomputational operating system making possible the immediate and practical use of genomic (gene sequence) data in a broad range of structure-based drug discovery and design processes leading to the rapid design and identification of small molecular lead compounds. SBI is building corporate partnerships with pharmaceutical companies, gene discovery companies and combinatorial chemistry companies ranging from broad technology collaborations to assistance with specific drug targets or target groups. CONTACT: Structural Bioinformatics Inc., San Diego Susan K. Burgess, 619/675-2400 |
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