The Web Development Core is a resource for all researchers at Partners and affiliated institutions to design and develop web sites for presenting their work and sharing their findings with other researchers and the public, as well as for sharing data confidentially among their own researchers.

We handle all aspects of web site creation, from consulting with you and determining your needs and audience, to designing the site, writing the text, photographing and illustrating it, doing any programming necessary, doing quality assurance of the site, reviewing it with you, and hosting and maintaining it for you. What makes us so useful is the fact that we handle the entire process, and we specialize in doing sites for researchers in medicine and molecular biology. We do our best to create the site quickly and economically.

There is no charge for initial consultations through your acceptance of our proposal and estimate of costs.

Services

Our services include complete development of web sites for researchers at Partners and affiliated institutions, including MGH, Brigham and Women's, Dana-Farber, Spaulding, and the various institutes working with Partners researchers. We will meet with you to discuss your needs, your audience, and your budget, and submit a proposal at no charge to you. Our capabilities include:

• Web site design and development: everything needed to go from idea to finished site
• We code using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash, depending on the customer's needs
• We can create secure HIPAA-compliant sites using password protection and encryption
• Photography: high-quality digital scientific photography, including photographs of people, facilities, and macro phototgraphy
  
• Photo-quality printing: up to 16 by 20 inches in size on heavy-weight paper using an archival 8-color printer
  
• Poster printing: up to 42" wide by as long as needed
  
• Writing and editing of technical material: we will work with you to write copy suitable for your site

Contact Derwin Hyde for further information. Email or phone: 617-643-2081.

Prices

The rate for web site design, development and maintenance is $80/hour. Photographic services (digital capture, lighting setup, Photoshop work, making prints, etc.) are also $80/hour. All photography is done digitally with very high quality professional equipment for optimum results. Large photographic prints are also available; contact us for prices for the various sizes.

Other web services such as quality assurance review and development work for databases are charged at other, generally lower, rates. Following initial meetings to discuss client needs for a site, a flat rate for the creation of the site can usually be quoted once the scope of work is agreed upon. We try to be flexible, so please feel free to contact us to discuss our rates and your needs.

Portfolio

Here's our portfolio of web sites. Click on any of the images or the corresponding headline to go to the site:

		The BioMEMS Resource Center The BioMEMS (BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems) Resource Center at MGH and Shriners is a part of the Center for Engineering in Medicine. The BioMEMS Resource Center, under Dr. Mehmet Toner, is engaged in the exploration of nanotechnology as applied to the practice of medicine. Their research areas include development of microfluidics and microfluidics applications in medicine, nano- and micro-fabrication, blood on a chip, and the living cell array technology. The BioMEMS Resource Center brings cutting-edge engineering technology to bioengineering and medical therapeutics.
		The Burn Research Center The Burn Research Center is at Shriners Burns Hospital in Boston and is funded by the National Institutes of Health. Shriners-affiliated researchers have four projects underway: Amino Acid Interrelations and Metabolism; Tissue-specific Metabolic Response to Injury; Molecular Mechanisms of Burn Induced Insulin Resistance; and Muscle Wasting in Burns: The Role of Akt/PKB. The Center has an extended and productive track record of scientific accomplishments, and the team is capitalizing on the use of modern technological innovations to probe how the body deals with major injury and bring these advances to use in clinical applications.
		The Center for Computational and Integrative Biology The CCIB site reflects the newest of the MGH thematic centers, a place where cutting-edge research into drug and technology discovery is integrated in the broader scope of biology. The CCIB consists of a number of Harvard faculty and MGH researchers working on subjects as diverse as the creation of life from non-natural amino acids (Jack Szostak), plant pathology (Fred Ausubel), development of high-throughput tools (Ramnik Xavier), the search for evidence of life on Mars (Gary Ruvkun), muscle wasting following burn injury (Ron Tompkins), and drug and technology development (Brian Seed). The Center for Computational and Integrative Biology provides support for investigators at the hospital and across Boston through a variety of autonomous cores that provide services including DNA sequencing, oligonucleotide synthesis, and research laboratory automation.
		The Center for Engineering in Medicine This site went public during the summer of 2006. It highlights the research and the accomplishments of the Center for Engineering in Medicine, a group founded by Drs. Martin Yarmush and Ronald G. Tompkins 1n 1987. The CEM works on advanced bioengineering for the human body in such disparate fields at bionanorobotics, metabolic engineering, stem cell bioengineering, biopreservation, functional genomics, and biomicroelectromechanical systems. There are currently ten resident faculty, over 25 affiliated faculty, and approximately 25 research fellows as well as several strong educational programs offered by the CEM. Facilities include a 7000-square-foot clean room used for nanofabrication of biodevices on a micro- and nano-scale, a broad variety of advanced imaging technologies, and laboratory research space operated in conjunction with Harvard, MIT, and the Massachusetts General Hospital.
		The Glue Grant The Glue Grant, or the Inflammation and the Host Response to Injury Large-Scale Collaborative Program, is a large-scale, multi-year grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences for a coordinated effort among approximately twenty research institutions, universities and hospitals, with specialists in clinical medicine, molecular biology, genomics and proteomics, bioinformatics, and biostatistics, to discover the genetic differences in the body's response to sepsis and its subsequent healing trajectory. It is working toward individualized treatment for trauma and burns, targeted at the specific human genome under treatment. The Glue Grant comprises three separate sites: one for the public, one for PIs, and one for Consortium members.
		The International Surgical Group Founded immediately after World War II by surgeons from Great Britain, the United States, Australia and other countries, the ISG keeps the top surgeons in the world in touch with each other through yearly meetings and membership activities. Ron Tompkins, M.D., Sc.D., Chief of Staff of the Boston Shriners Burns Hospital and 2006 President of the ISG, commissioned this site prior to hosting the 2006 annual meeting of the ISG in Boston. The ISG site has a public section and an area available only to members with dynamic pages created dynamically from a database of members.
		Lee Laboratory The site for the Lee Laboratorywas released in December of 2006. Jeannie Lee, M.D., Ph.D., studies how male and female cells use a mechanism called X-chromosome inactivation to achieve equality of sex chromosome gene expression. She is also interested in the mechanistic and evolutionary relationship between X inactivation and imprinting. The site was designed to be simple and clean with light colors to allow the content to dominate. Jeannie Lee's laboratory is located in the Massachusetts General Hospital Simches Research Center at 185 Cambridge Street in Boston.