My main technical expertise is in bioinformatics, especially in the context of handling data from massively parallel DNA sequencing (a.k.a. next-generation sequencing). I also have experience in laboratory-based molecular microbiology having done my PhD and postdoctoral research at Imperial College, London, in the laboratories of Prof David Leak and Prof Martin Buck, respectively. Whilst at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, I contributed to the widely used Pfam and InterPro databases and developed an interest and expertise in high-throughput sequence analysis and data management. Whilst at The Sainsbury Laboratory, I became interested in exploiting large nucleotide sequence datasets generated from so-called next-generation sequencing technologies.