I have experience in both wet-lab and computational biology, ranging from bacteriophage molecular biology to Drosophila genetics to bacterial genomics and computational biology. We investigate and characterize the functional makeup of complex microbial systems using high-throughput sequencing and other approaches. I am trying to alter the perception that sequencing is counting. We want experimentalists to understand that sequencing is a probabilistic sample of the underlying environment, and that the resulting data can be manipulated using the methods developed for compositional data analysis.