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Pratik Savai
Research Technician (Bioinformatics)

Phone: (213) 821-2065
Email: savai@usc.edu
   
Interest
Develop bioinformatic tools to aid molecular biology research.
 
Educational Summary
Dec 2002M.S. University of Southern California, Computational Molecular Biology
Dec 2001M.S. University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering
May 2000B.E. University of Mumbai, Chemical Engineering
 
Employment History
May 03 – presentResearch Technician (Bioinformatics), Biology Department, USC, CA
Sep 01 - Apr 03Research Assistant (Bioinformatics), Gene Therapy Labs, USC, CA
May 01 - Aug 01Web Developer, College of Letters, Arts & Science, USC, CA
 
Projects
Batch BLAST:
  • Blast all your sequences on a single click of the mouse.
  • The NCBI database is installed locally and updated regularly. Hence, no waiting in the queue.
  • Results of all blasts are tabulated in an excel sheet with links to the blast and Genbank pages.
DNA sequence database & UI:
  • MySQL database is designed to store all of the sequence analysis results.
  • Data entry is done automatically using a Perl script.
  • Queries are run via a web interface developed using HTML, JavaScript, SQL and Perl.
  • Provision for selecting sequences of your liking and making a FASTA file which will be accepted by sequence alignment and phylogeny programs.
Caron Lab Website:
Give a new look to the lab website.
Presentations
Fuhrman, J.A., Caron, D.A., Brown, M.V., Countway, P.D., Hernandez, X.A., Hewson, I., Liang, X., Patel, A., Savai, P., Schaffner, R., Schnetzer, A., Schwalbach, M.S., Steele, J.A., Travao, M. (2003) The USC Microbial Observatory, Poster presentation at the 2nd Annual NSF Microbial Observatory Principal Investigators’ Workshop (Sept.15-16, 2003), Arlington, VA

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