The crux of this web site is the Iron Speed Designer application which opens several SQL databases containing student names, emails, ID numbers, Department, and information about student presentations and papers. I have a private Iron Speed Designer application which has the above and also extended information including my notes on each student, grades for exams, etc. In my seminar course, the students can sign up on the Iron Speed Designer site for presentations and attach specific information on the research paper selected to analyze. Links to PDF files are included as appropriate. I have also tried allowing the students to read each other’s papers and provide anonymous comments and suggested grades.

The ability to search and filter the data is enormously important. In the case of oligos, an email is automatically sent to the lab technician to order the oligos entered in the database by lab personnel.

I also created and maintain numerous interactive web sites for my research field. Work in progress includes migrating a flat file sequence database for messenger RNAs that are "edited" by the insertion and deletion of uridine residues in an interactive SQL database, and a database of researchers in this field with contact information into an interactive SQL database which allows people to update their own information.