Dr Christine Sambles

As a bioinformatician in the Wellcome Trust Biomedical Informatics Hub Christine analyses genomic (Roche 454 and Illumina) and transcriptomic sequence data (Illumina RNAseq) of a range of organisms including yeasts, algae, higher plants, and bacteria.

Processes include de novo and reference-guided assembly, metatranscriptomics, gene prediction, annotation, comparative genomics, co-expression networking, SNP analysis and phylogenetics.

She creates and curates several databases and websites that utilise MySQL/PostgreSQL, php, html and Perl including genome browsers, transcriptome databases and LIMS.

She also trains PDRAs, PhD and undergraduate students in aspects of bioinformatics analyses, visualisation of complex data and programming and is an instructor for the Exeter iGEM 2012 team.