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Associate Professor Thomas Daniel (Dan) Andrews is a computational biologist at the Australian National University, holding joint appointments in the John Curtin School of Medical Research and the School of Computing. He serves as Group Leader of the Andrews Group focused on Genome Informatics, Senior Fellow, Bioinformatics Manager, and Jubilee Joint Fellow. Andrews holds a BSc (Hons) and PhD, and is an ANU biochemistry graduate. He has professional experience in research and industry across Australia, Japan, and the United Kingdom.

His research centers on genomics, computational biology, and molecular evolution, with a focus on high-throughput computation and analysis of genomic data. This includes efforts to accelerate understanding of human pathogenic genetic variation through computational biology and bioinformatics approaches that uncover causal patterns and functional signals from genome sequencing and high-throughput phenotyping data. The work spans human clinical contexts and model organisms, emphasizing data-driven prediction of medical consequences of mutations in personal human genomes. It integrates high-throughput bioinformatics for genetic variation identification with deep learning applications in cellular phenotyping, prioritization of pathogenic protein mutations via structural bioinformatics, and development of information systems for managing large datasets to support hypothesis testing and training predictive models. These activities aim to produce computational applications and pathology tests for identifying patterns of pathogenic genetic variation in complex human diseases. Andrews maintains an unapologetically technical focus in his contributions to the field.