Recent advances in technology have made possible the rapid accumulation of massive amounts of molecular biological data. Namely, rapid sequencing has made possible the complete sequencing of entire genomes and bacterial communities while DNA microchip technology is advancing such that the study of the expression patterns of all genes in a genome can be analyzed rapidly. My interest is in developing and improving analysis tools that are needed to consider such large amounts of varied data in light of studying biology and evolution on a genomic scale.