Meet The Scientist – Sumi John

Published on 05/03/2021

SUMI ELSA JOHN

Meet the scientists behind DDI’s research

SUMI ELSA JOHN is graduated with a master’s degree in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology from the University of Leeds, UK. Her areas of expertise include handling and analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data, in particular: Whole Genome, Exome, and RNA-seq data. She has developed pipelines for the functional annotation and identification of disease-specific variants to evaluate genomics data. Her current research interests include analysis of “Runs of Homozygosity” regions in exomes that characterizes consanguineous nature of Arab populations as well as exploring pharmacogenomics variations in Arab.