Bioinformatics Group Leader at the James Hutton Institute, Dundee. I am a computational biologist with research interests in the development and application of computational methods for virus diagnostics, microbiome analysis, functional genomics, transcription regulation and protein-nucleic-acid interactions.
My current research interests are in plant pathogen detection and data analysis using next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies. I am currently collaborating on a number of projects including; plant virus diagnostics using NGS data, modelling virus-protein interactions in plants, developing virus detection protocols for water samples, predicting antimicrobial peptides using NGS data from soils, and analysis of plant microbiomes. I am also currently a collaborator, providing bioinformatics expertise, on the BBSRC funded UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank project.
Past research projects and interests have included
Analysis and prediction of proteins that bind to RNA using sequence information
Modelling protein-protein interaction sites using 3D structure information
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[1] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-9009