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Thomas S. Thacher received his Ph.D. at Boston College in the area of statistical mechanics. He then took a post-doctoral position at Princeton University to study the dynamics of biomolecules. At Deltagen, Dr. Thacher developed key components of the DeltaDiscovery framework, including a metadata-driven graphing engine for the web. He also created software to manage large amounts of Affymetrix array data in a relational database. The system allowed for key up/down-regulated genes associated with mouse knockouts to be identified and reported efficiently. Prior to VCI, Dr. Thacher was Senior Scientist at Biosym Technologies, Inc. where he worked in the Potential Energy Function Consortium and then as a scientific manager in the Discover development group. Additionally, he worked on a number of contract research grants in the area of molecular modeling for industrial customers. Dr. Thacher was also awarded a Phase I and Phase II NIH research grant to apply sensitivity analysis to bimolecular modeling. Dr. Thacher is directly involved with many projects at Virtual Chemistry Inc., including the design and development of an extensive Java-based interface to a client's in-house combinatorial chemistry software. | 