He leads a consulting group focused on Sequencing Informatics and teaches graduate Bioinformatics courses. His current research includes de novo sequencing/assembly/annotation of interesting genomes, RNA-seq gene expression studies, motif analysis of gene regulatory domains, and data management for integrative genomics projects. He is the author of Next-Generation DNA Sequencing Informatics (2012, 2015) and Essentials of Medical Genomics (2008). He received his PhD. in molecular biology from Cornell University in 1992 and his BS in Botany from the University of Michigan in 1983.