
Biography
I am member of the Plant Genomics group working on a project to develop a gene family toolkit in Cyverse that will enable the analysis of new sequence data and its integration into a phylogenetics context. The aim is to enable the study of gene expansion and contraction in groups of closely related genes across different individuals of the same species.
I joined the Earlham Institute in 2012 as a scientific programmer to work in bread wheat genomics and was involved in identifying induced mutations from a wheat TILLING population using an exome capture approach. The resulting database of mutations is now providing an excellent functional genomics resource for both basic and applied wheat research (http://www.wheat-tilling.com/). Originally trained as a plant molecular biologist, l obtained an MSc in Bioinformatics from the University of Manchester and worked as a bioinformatician at the John Innes Centre for six years before joining EI.
Publications
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Why is genome annotation important?

Why cloud computing is important for data-driven bioscience research

How bioinformatics can crack the complex case of protist biodiversity

The dramatic effects genomics will have on our future world

The inextricable link between climate change and biodiversity.
