About

I have the last four years been working with genome sequencing of bacteria using the next sequencing technologies (454 and Illumina). I have to date experience of assembling> 100 bacterial genomes from a handful of different pathogens. The purpose of my research is to understand bacterial evolution and distribution patterns to ultimately be able to predict whether disease outbreaks appear due to intentionally released of pathogens or not.

Previously, I worked with the expression analysis in plants using custom microarrays. The work consisted primarily of the development of techniques for effective analysis (image analysis, normalization, data warehousing and data mining), but also methods to interpret data and to draw biological conclusions. The result of the work has been published in both bioinformatics and biological journals.

I have more than ten years experience of working with R and Bioconductor, but I have in recent years shifted to primarily use Python, and to some extent Perl, due to the increasingly larger amounts of data generated. Databases of different types is also something I use daily to structure my work and connect new results using semantic web technology (for published databases see Popgenie and UPSC-BASE in the publication list.)

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