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In the Press

New Models for Powerful Flu Fighters From Existing Drugs. Tina Hesman Saey, U.S. News and World Report. 12/9/2009.
Breakthrough Flu Drug Might Already Exist. Lauren Gravitz, Technology Review (MIT). 12/8/2009
Blessings live in Brazil. Kate Evans, The Daily Universe (BYU). 3/8/2005.
BYU student to graduate with double major and master’s degree, 4.0 GPA in five years. Lexi Allen, BYU News. 4/18/2005
He’s a triple-threat guy: BYU student will pick up three degrees. Todd Hollingshead, The Salt Lake Tribune. 04/21/2005.
Serve others, BYU graduates told. Laura Hancock, Deseret Morning News. 4/22/2005.

Software I’ve Written

AutoClickChem: Click chemistry in silico
AutoGrow: A genetic algorithm for chemically tractable, semi-automated protein inhibitor design
BINANA: A novel algorithm for ligand-binding characterization
CrystalDock: A novel approach to fragment-based drug design that draws on a large-scale database of crystallographically determined binding fragments
HBonanza: A computer algorithm for molecular-dynamics-trajectory hydrogen-bond analysis
LigMerge: A fast algorithm to generate models of novel potential ligands from sets of known binders
LipidWrapper: An Algorithm for generating large-scale membrane models of arbitrary geometry
NNScore: A neural-network scoring function for predicting small-molecule binding
POVME: An algorithm for measuring binding-pocket volumes
QuadMap: An algorithm for analyzing linkages affected by heterozygous translocations
WebChem Viewer: A tool for the easy dissemination of molecular-structure and chemical-property data
WISP: A program for rapidly identifying optimal and suboptimal allosteric pathways

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