
I want to help understand where biodiversity comes from and where it might be going in a changing world. To understand the outcomes of evolutionary diversity in the broad scale we have to represent it in silico, and develop the data sets, tools, algorithms, hypotheses and tests to make sense of it all.
Keywords
comparative genomics, big data, computational biology, open source, emergent characters, phyloinformatics, comparative analysis
Currenttopics
A selection of the topics I am working on currently.

Ancient tomato genomics
Past processes that shaped the current genetic diversity of the domesticated tomato are still largely unknown. Using Illumina HiSeq, we sequenced and compared full genomes from tomato accessions stored worldwide in genebanks and herbaria up to 182 years…

ARISE: knowing Nature in the Netherlands
In the ARISE project, Naturalis, together with the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute and the universities of Amsterdam and Twente, is building an infrastructure that knows and recognizes all (multicellular) Dutch species. Every species, every sample…