Hi, I'm Dani

I am excited to share that our newest paper titled “Human-specific gene expansions contribute to brain evolution” has been published in Cell. [Read More]

In our recent bioRxiv pre-print, we drew inspiration from a previous study to use haplotype networks to investigate signatures of balancing selection in the duplicated human gene, CD8B. [Read More]

I have been working as a bioinformatician for ~8 years, but for some reason I never had to set up my own local nucleotide Blast database. Until now. [Read More]

More than a year after the original post, I decided to update this blog post with two other essential tools for the modern bioinformatician. Spoiler alert! These tools are Conda/Bioconda and Snakemake. My life without them would be incomplete, so I felt the moral imperative to share it with you.... [Read More]

Nowadays, almost every scientific endeavor relies on computers to process and analyze data. Even if you are working mostly on the bench, you can really benefit from running your own computational pipelines to process and analyze your data. [Read More]