Hi, I'm MrCreek. I majored in Biological Sciences and got a PhD in Zoology. I am now a post-doc. I am especially interested in detecting natural selection with molecular data and thus determining which genetic differences between individuals or species are adaptive, and which are neutral. I mostly focus on the population genetic level within species or between closely related species. I've worked on a variety of animals, and I'm currently focusing on humans because of the extensive data available in humans: whole genome-scale datasets, like exomes or SNP data, from many individuals in each of several populations. I have a fair amount of experience with phylogenetics, too.
My favorite programs are DnaSP, PAML, phylip, BioEdit, and many others. I have just learned Perl, my first programming language, in the past year, and I now use it extensively. I'm also trying to learn R. My graduate work was all done on Windows, but my post-doc lab uses Macs, and I'm still learning to compensate for PC software that isn't available or works differently on Macs (I'm not trying to say that one platform or the other is better, just that I have less experience doing biology on Macs).
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on 2009-10-11 05:36 pm (UTC)My favorite programs are DnaSP, PAML, phylip, BioEdit, and many others. I have just learned Perl, my first programming language, in the past year, and I now use it extensively. I'm also trying to learn R. My graduate work was all done on Windows, but my post-doc lab uses Macs, and I'm still learning to compensate for PC software that isn't available or works differently on Macs (I'm not trying to say that one platform or the other is better, just that I have less experience doing biology on Macs).