Due to new breakthroughs in DNA sequencing technologies, biologists are now able to collect 1,000 times more genetic data then they were able to just five years ago.  This number will climb to 1,000,000 in the next five years.  This enormous increase in data has created a serious shortage of computational biologists, an unprecedented burden on computational resources, and a desperate need for new algorithmic development. Work in the Lemmon lab focus on the development of new methods/algorithms for analysis of next-generation DNA sequence data, such as Illumina, 454, Pacific Biosciences and Ion Torrent.

We are also working on methods to enrich specific regions of the genome for targeted sequencing. We will be using these methods to study amphibian phylogentics and snake venom evolution.