My current role at the Institute involves providing maintenance and improvements to biologically significant reference genomes. I am responsible for the curation of Human Chromosomes 14 and X, Mouse Chromosomes 3 and 19, and Zebrafish chromosomes 1,6,7,17 and 19. This is a very wide and varied role encompassing a number of aspects of data analysis to aid high quality genome construction this includes scrutinising and assembling raw sequence data, through to whole chromosome improvements utilising data such Optical maps.
I started at the Sanger Institute in 1996, prepping and sequencing samples for the Human Genome Project. From there I moved on to a role as a finisher, assembling the Sequence data for the Human, Mouse and Zebrafish Genomes. I became involved with the GRC in 2009 and have been in my current role for 3 years.