Professor Wilkins is the Director the NSW System Biology Initiative and the Ramaciotti Centre for Genomics, at the University of New South Wales. His research group currently focuses on how protein post-translational modifications, or combinations of these, form an ‘interaction code’ that modulate the intracellular interactions of proteins. His group is also actively involved in the bioinformatic analysis of next-generation sequence data in genomics and transcriptomics projects, and the systems-level interpretation of these data in pathways and networks.