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*Geneious 3.0 beta released* - April 2007

Biomatters has just released a major update of its new software for organizing biological data and speeding up molecular sequence analyses such as sequence alignment. The latest version is Geneious 3.0.2. It has a bunch of new features and a great programmers API for the bioinformatics developers among you.

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General Information

I am a Senior Lecturer in Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I am also affiliated with the Bioinformatics Institute (based in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland) and the New Zealand software and research company, Biomatters Ltd.

Currently, my work focuses on developing software tools and probabilistic models for understanding genome evolution and virus evolution.

My general research interests include:

• Statistical models and algorithms for understanding biomolecular sequence evolution, structure and function
• Genomic sequence analysis
• Coalescent-based population genetics
• Virus evolution
• Evolutionary theory, complexity theory and their intersection
  
• Bioinformatics software
  

Distinctions/Honours

Best Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Science, University of Auckland 2002
Society for Systematic Biology, Ernst Mayr Award 2001
New Zealand ACM Programming Competition Overall Champion, 1996

Employment

Feb 2007 -	Senior Lecturer	Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland
July 2005 - Jan 2007	Lecturer	Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland
December 2003 - June 2005	Postdoc	Evolutionary Biology Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
June 2002- December 2003	Postdoc	The Genome Analysis & Bioinformatics Group, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
June 2002- December 2003	Postdoc	Ancient Biomolecules Centre, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Dec 1996 - Feb 1998	Software developer	Peace Software, Auckland, NZ

Education

PhD	2002, in Bioinformatics	School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland
BSc	1996, in Biology and Computer Science	University of Auckland, Auckland

Biography

Alexei Drummond completed his BSc (1996) and PhD in Bioinformatics (2002) at Auckland University. He then spent 3 years at the University of Oxford doing post-doctoral research in theDepartment of Statistics and the Department of Zoology before returning to the University of Auckland in 2005 to take up a Lecturership in Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science. Alexei's research interests are centered around probabilistic models of molecular evolution and population genetics.

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Last modified: April 23, 2007