This is the homepage of Daniel Lawson, a Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bristol. My research focusses on modelling of bacterial and human evolution using genetics data, and general techniques for inference with a wider variety of applciations.
On these pages you will find a (non-technical) description of my research, and a list of my publications. Also some details of my teaching here, some information about me, and my contact details.
Try looking me up on Google Scholar.
The main bulk of my research over the last couple of years has gone into ChromoPainter/FineSTRUCTURE, into which we have put a lot of effort to produce a usable set of tools.
September 2012: What is a Population? In statistical genetics modelling and inference has been submitted as a book chapter, and a pre-print is available.
April 2012: Our review similarity matrices in genetics has been accepted and is to appear soon.
March 2012: Our review of similarity matrices in genetics has been submitted to the Annual Review of Human Genomics.
Jan 2012: The fineSTRUCTURE and ChromPainter paper has been published in PLoS genetics.
Dec 2011: The fineSTRUCTURE and ChromPainter paper has been accepted by PLoS Genetics and will appear online before too long. We have several users of the software.
July 2011: The PaintMyChromosomes.com website is going live! It is still in the very early stages at the moment, but the content will be completely usable. Get in touch if you are interested!
July 2011: We submitted our paper "Inference of population structure using dense haplotype data" to PLoS Genetics. See the fineSTRUCTURE page.
Feb 2011: Our paper "Bayesian analysis of non-linear differential equation models with application to a gut microbial ecosystem" was provisionally accepted by the Biometrical Journal. See publications
Feb 2011: A description of using Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection was published, titled "Likelihood-free estimation of model evidence". See publications
2010: Our paper titled "Inference of Homologous Recombination in Bacteria Using Whole Genome Sequences" was published. See publications
March 2009: A new applications note in Bioinformatics was published titled "SimMLST: simulation of multi-locus sequence typing data under a neutral model". See publications
