I'm Nicolas Joannin, working on the varDB project at Kyoto University, Japan. Antigenic variation is a mechanism that many pathogens have found to avoid their hosts' immune system. varDB is a database of antigenic variation sequences. I come from the wet lab, but have recently shifted to working in the dry... Mostly learning Python 3.x, although I sometimes have to deal with both Perl (who doesn't ;) and Ruby.