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Textco BioSoftware, Inc. (formerly Textco, Inc.), located in West Lebanon, New Hampshire, has been serving the software needs of molecular biologists for over 20 years - since 1984. Textco's mission is to provide high quality, intuitive software to assist molecular biologists in their research efforts. Textco has provided its solutions to scientists who are breaking new ground in genetic engineering research, drug development, and biotechnology at academic, government and corporate institutions in more than 50 countries worldwide.
It is Textco BioSoftware's goal to develop and release software that a biologist can use intuitively. We believe that a researcher should spend his or her time thinking about results rather than trying to figure out how to get the program to generate the results. For each of our products, we start our design from scratch and carefully think about what a practicing biologist wants to do and how to best enable him or her to proceed. Our two current products illustrate this philosophy.
Textco's Products
 The Gene Construction Kit® is a truly unique DNA manipulation, cloning design, and illustration tool. GCK provides a way to manipulate DNA sequences with an intuitive graphical interface -- the way biologists think about and illustrate their cloning projects. The graphical interface provides a natural way to present and assemble the many steps needed in most cloning projects. Previous to the release of Gene Construction Kit, biologists were forced to use the error prone method of manipulating sequence data directly without a graphical interface. GCK is available for both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
 The Gene Inspector® combines a sophisticated sequence analysis package with a scientific laboratory notebook. By combining analyses with a powerful notebook, Textco has provided the ability to keep related information in a single location for the first time. Analysis Setups provide a way to define an analysis (or multiple analyses) with all its parameters and to save it as a menu item for future use. This means that everyone in the group will be able to get consistent results.
Textco's Founders
Robert H. Gross, Ph.D., President, Textco BioSoftware, Inc. Dr. Gross has a B.E.S. degree in Engineering Sciences and an M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland). He is a professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) where he is also the Director of the Center for Biological and Biomedical Computing. He is on the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (West Lebanon, New Hampshire) and for the Familial Dysautonomia Foundation (New York, New York). Dr. Gross has published over 35 scientific research papers in the fields of snRNAs, RNA splicing, heat shock, thermotolerance, and computational biology. He is also an editor of the Biotechnology Software and Internet Reports (Mary Ann Liebert, Publisher). In 1998, Dr. Gross received a Career Achievement Award from the Biotechnology Software and Internet Journal for "outstanding achievements in design, programming, and advancements in scientific software".
Roberta Brucks Gross, Vice President, Textco BioSoftware, Inc. Roberta Brucks Gross, Vice President, Textco, Inc. Ms. Gross received her B.A. degree in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Albany (Albany, New York), and attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland). She taught mathematics a public school in Baltimore, Maryland for seven years. For more than 20 years she has been active on the local and state level in New Hampshire in many volunteer activities involving schools, special education, and people with disabilities.
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