 She applies advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for life scientists and other scientific disciplines.She has successfully secured funding from the European Union, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the United States and UK funding agencies including the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) (MRC), the Department of Health, The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute and the Department of Trade and Industry.Her work has been published in leading peer reviewed scientific journals including "Nucleic Acids Research", "Bioinformatics", "IEEE Computer", the "Journal of Biomedical Semantics", "Briefings in Bioinformatics", "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing conference, the "International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems", the "Journal of Biomedical Informatics", "Nature Genetics" and "Drug Discovery Today".