Daniel Lawson

My work focusses on genetics and epidemiology, with a focus on chromosome painting, for which we've produced a usable, flexible and powerful set of tools. I'm currently working on statistical and data-mining techniques to scale this analysis up to "all the genomes of all people", an ambitious goal that requires some new statistical and data mining methodology. The project also involves identifying which areas of the genome are interesting and in which subpopulations selection might have been acting.