Pratik Savai
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Pratik Savai
Research Technician (Bioinformatics)
Phone: (213) 821-2065
Email: savai@usc.edu
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| Interest |
| Develop bioinformatic tools to aid molecular biology research.
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| Educational Summary |
| Dec 2002 | M.S. University of Southern California, Computational Molecular Biology |
| Dec 2001 | M.S. University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering |
| May 2000 | B.E. University of Mumbai, Chemical Engineering |
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| Employment History |
| May 03 – present | Research Technician (Bioinformatics), Biology Department, USC, CA |
| Sep 01 - Apr 03 | Research Assistant (Bioinformatics), Gene Therapy Labs, USC, CA |
| May 01 - Aug 01 | Web Developer, College of Letters, Arts & Science, USC, CA |
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| 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.
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| 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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