User:Macleand

Head of Bioinformatics, The Sainsbury Laboratory.

I run the bioinformatics team at TSL. We provide support, training and infrastructure for the traditional research groups here.

I run a research group also. Our exciting projects range from genomics through bioinformatics and citizen science to evolutionary modelling. We bring together biology, computational science and bioinformatics to make the most of big data and help answer big questions. We study data from citizen science projects to understand how the ‘crowd’ can be used as a super-intelligent computer. Our Chalara ash dieback genomics hub promotes data sharing and analyses to a new community of experts in an emergent pathogen. We develop tools and methods to make the most of high throughput sequence data to study non-reference, non-model organisms.We use mathematical modelling techniques to understand what drives genome size and the dynamics of gene regulation.

www.danmaclean.info