Dylan's MSc from Reading University was based on an investigation of DNA alignment using hybrid evolutionary algorithms, and his PhD in Computer Science from Exeter University focused protein homology detection using kernel methods. In 2010 he joined the Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry as a bioinformatician, building a pipeline for exome sequence analysis with the primary aim of investigating monogenic causes of diabetes. Dylan joined EMBL-EBI in 2011 as part of the Database of Genomic Variants archive (DGVa) team, working with data on structural variation in all species. He become project lead for the European Genome-phenome Archive (EGA) in 2014 and coordinator of the EGA in 2017.