Tree of Life Assembly
Genome Engine
Our team gathers the high throughput sequence data as it is generated, runs quality control analysis to make sure the data is good quality and from the expected species, as part of the Tree of Life Genome Engine.
We assemble the long read sequence data into long contiguous pieces, then use further long-range sequencing data to scaffold the data into chromosome scale blocks.
We develop automated tools and pipelines to achieve this to enable the high throughput required for ever growing number of genomes being sequenced.
Our people
Core team

Will Eagles
Senior Bioinformatician

Mr James Gilbert
Senior Software Developer

Ksenia Krasheninnikova
Senior Bioinformatician

Damon-Lee Pointon
Bioinformatician

James Torrance
Senior Bioinformatician
Previous core team members

Dr Dirk-Dominik Dolle
Senior Bioinformatician

Dr Ying Yan
Former Senior Bioinformatician at the Sanger Institute
Wellcome Sanger Institute