About Us

Mitotech™ specializes in developing software systems for high throughput automated scientific data analysis. The principles have developed software systems for DNA sequencing systems, chromatography data, and mass spectral data.

Mitotech is a small business located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We work primarily to develop custom data analysis solutions tailored to individual laboratories and scientific challenges.

John W. Elling, Ph.D., MBA, Founder,

  is an experienced bioinformatics entrepreneur. After receiving a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, he started his career in New Mexico in 1991 as a Technical Staff Member at Los Alamos National Lab. In 1998 he left the Lab to start Bioreason - a bioinformatics company developing and commercializing statistical analysis software for drug discovery applications. In 2001 he started Cytoprint which, until its acquisition by Atto Bioscience, developed image analysis technology for biological assay discovery. Three years ago as CEO of Integrated Genomics in Chicago he redirected the company’s business into bioinformatics, initially downsizing to achieve profitability and then ramping up a 15% to 25% CAGR and arranged a merger at a 6x sales multiple. As a Visiting Entrepreneur at Los Alamos he helped develop the business plan for Acoustic Cytometry Systems and later led the company until it was acquired in 2008 by Invitrogen.

Bobi K. Den Hartog, Ph.D.,

  is an experienced computer scientist. During her Ph.D. collaboration at Los Alamos National Laboratory, she developed a mixture-of-experts software process for interpreting contaminated and mixed chemical samples. At the laboratory automation provider Coyote Software, she wrote software to observe, learn and interact with a real-life process being developed ad-hoc by an automated laboratory. At the pharmacoinformatics company Bioreason, she applied a mixture-of-experts approach hierarchically to the task of evaluating candidates for agricultural pesticide and herbicide from hundreds of thousands of theoretically possible compounds. At MitoTech LLC she leads the algorithm discovery and development work to automate and assess the quality of the forensic analysis of mtDNA sequences. Dr Den Hartog is skilled at discovering the underlying process, factors and variances in expert level scientific data analysis.

Russell B. Kepler, Senior Software Architect,

  is a seasoned systems architect with huge experience developing software systems in the fields of genetics and bioinformatics. He brings a broad background of experience in LIMS, operating system development, language development, accounting and text processing. At Applied Biosystems he developed custom code that integrated external applications and devices into the AB workflow, both into a custom proteomics application and with SQL*LIMS, the laboratory management package from AB. At PE Molecular Informatics he designed systems to handle the analysis of genetic information (mostly DNA sequences derived from gene expression analysis or from hybridization techniques).