He is author of mpiBLAST, Mauve, and other tools filled with gooey open-source goodness. After successfully defendeding a Ph.D. in Computational Biology at UW Madison, Aaron spent two years in Brisbane on the Australian coast, before returning stateside to UC Davis where he continued his quest to unravel the mysteries of the genetic world. He has now returned to Australia. Please do not contact him with questions, comments, concerns, complaints, worries or gripes, at dontcopythatfloppy@cs.wisc.edu; he will ignore any correspondence not received!