bacpop (bacterial population genomics & modelling)
We are the Pathogen Informatics and Modelling group at EMBL-EBI (also known as the Lees Group).
We aim to develop innovative, ethical and sharable approaches which help realise the power of sequencing to control pathogen threats. We are interested in both producing methods, and generating biological insights by applying these methods to data from a range of sources.
Our current main areas of work are:
- Genomic epidemiology
- Statistical genetics
- Mathematical models of transmission
- Within-host diversity
- GPU and multicore algorithms
- Democratising bioinformatics
For more information about these areas, see our research.
Find out more
To learn who we are and who we work with, see about us. Current vacancies are listed under working with us.
For more about our tools and methods, we have collated information on the software page, and you can also see our code on github.
We also have a youtube channel where we post some of our talks.
Guides and blog posts
We publish sample workflows and recommendations for common population genomics workflows in our guides.
Other posts, such as paper summaries, reviews and short how-to guides can be found on our blog.