About Algosome.com
Algosome.com was created to serve as a launching pad for several software projects. From molecular biology to web design, algosome.com provides tools and resources for a variety of researchers.
Algosome was launched in 2008 by Greg Cope, who at the time was a Biochemistry Researcher from Stanford University with an obsession for software engineering. Greg has a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology, and currently works as a Bioinformatics Scientist in the San Francisco Bay Area.
In 2001, with an interest in both computation and complexity, Greg began designing software by authoring several small computational tools to facilitate his research in biochemistry. Frustrated with the lack of a cost effective and easy to use Molecular Biology software package at the time, Greg began to write scripts that met this requirement. These scripts culminated in the GeneCoder project - a free to use, comprehensive Biology tool for Molecular Cloning.
In 2009 the VistaPDB software was released. VistaPDB provides the scientific community with an easy to use 3D macromolecular modeling program. Capable of displaying and analyzing 3D structures in publicly available PDB format, VistaPDB is a comprehensive resource that excels beyond the current software available. Current projects include WebmasterSEO, a program used in website design and search engine optimization.
Greg has experience in a variety of programming languages, including java, perl, php, C, C++, Objective-C, SQL, HTML, and css, just to name a few. Although his programming experience ranges in subject matter, Greg's current focus is in the area of Bioinformatics with regards to tool development and cutting edge research.
What does algosome mean? Algosome is the melding of two words: algorithm and 'some'. In Computer Science, an algorithm is a set of instructions for calculation and data processing. In biology, a 'some' (pronounced 'zome') is a large complex of molecules - more often than not proteins - together performing a set of instructions for a given process, be it protein synthesis (Ribosome), protein degradation (Proteasome), or chromatin organization (nucleosome). The blending of these two words is what Algosome is all about - creating a group (or in biological terms a 'complex') of algorithms, with the end goal of solving difficult problems.