Daniel Swan

Daniel Swan has joined The Genome Analysis Center (TGAC) as head of the platform and pipelines group, where he will be responsible for the research institute's suite of advanced genome analysis facilities.

Previously, Swan headed NGS analysis at Oxford Gene Technology and was responsible for developing NGS products and services for academic, commercial, and clinical research customers. He also has worked at the National Environmental Research Council's environmental bioinformatics center, and he ran Newcastle University's bioinformatics core facility.

Swan trained as a vertebrate developmental biologist at Imperial College London and Edinburgh University before transitioning into bioinformatics with a post at Barts and the London Genome Center.