Structural Bioinformatics of San Diego has added Michael Levitt, professor and chair of computational structural biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, professor Minoru Kanehisa of Kyoto University, Steve Bryant at the US National Institutes of Health, and John Reed, head of research at the Burnham Cancer Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., to its scientific advisory board.
Kanehisa’s laboratory develops theoretical frameworks for understanding information flow in biological systems in terms of genes, gene products, other biomolecules, and their interactions.
Bryant, a senior investigator at the US National Center for Biotechnology Information, has developed several databases and protein structure analysis tools, including Entrez/3D, MMDB, PKB, PDBeast, and a VAST-search tool.
William Strecker has left Compaq Computer of Houston to join life sciences and information technology venture creation firm NewcoGen Group of Cambridge, Mass., as senior vice president, strategy and technology. Strecker, who has 28 years of computer industry experience, will participate in creating and managing the company’s portfolio of high-technology start-ups.
Most recently Strecker had been Compaq’s senior vice president, technology and corporate development, and chief technology officer, where he reported to the CEO. He had held the same position at Digital Equipment before Compaq acquired it in 1998. Compaq recently made an investment in Applied Genomic Technology Capital Funds, a venture capital group formed by NewcoGen and OneLiberty Ventures.