Alan has a huge amount of expertise in curating genomes from many branches of the “tree of life”, using many data types such as Hi-C, optical mapping and long-read sequencing.  He interfaces with post-doctoral researchers and bioinformaticians to ensure the insights gained from curation translate into research advances and algorithm development.  He writes code to facilitate genome curation, from producing genome visualisations to generating fasta files directly from Hi-C map output.