William Fletcher

PhD Graduate

Principal Supervisor: Ziheng Yang (FRS), UCL's Professor of Statistical Genetics

Funding: An EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant from CoMPLEX (the UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology).

Contact Details:

University College London
Department of Genetics Evolution and the Environment
Room 436 Darwin Building
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT

+44 20 7679 2356
Send me an email.

PhD Thesis:

Computational Statistics in Molecular Phylogenetics

Computer Software:

INDELible

Publications:

Fletcher, W. and Yang, Z. 2009. INDELible: a flexible simulator of biological sequence evolution. Mol. Biol. and Evol. 2009 26(8):1879-1888

Fletcher, W. and Yang, Z. 2009. The Effect of Insertions, Deletions and Alignment Errors on the Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection. Mol. Biol. and Evol. Advance Access published online, May 5, 2010

Other

Three Peaks Challenge

I recently attempted the Three Peaks Challenge with some friends. For all those kind people who donated I put together a few photos of the experience which can be found here.