About the Author
Tiago Antao is a bioinformatician. He is currently studying the genomics of the mosquito
Anopheles gambiae, the main vector of malaria. Tiago was originally a computer scientist
who crossed over to computational biology with an MSc in bioinformatics from the Faculty of
Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal. He holds a PhD in the spread of drug resistant
malaria from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK. Tiago is one of the coauthors
of Biopython—a major bioinformatics package—written on Python. He has also developed
Lositan, a Jython-based selection detection workbench.
In his postdoctoral career, he has worked with human datasets at the University of
Cambridge, UK, and with the mosquito whole genome sequence data at the University
of Oxford, UK. He is currently working as a Sir Henry Wellcome fellow at the Liverpool
School of Tropical Medicine.
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge everyone at Packt
Publishing, especially Gaurav Sharma, my very patient development editor.
The quality of this book owes much to the excellent work of the reviewers
who provided outstanding comments. Finally, I would like to thank Ana for all
that she endured during the writing of this book.
