Cameron Gilchrist
Postdoctoral Researcher at Korea Basic Science Institute
Seoul, South Korea
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Top SchoolCameron Gilchrist is a postdoctoral researcher with eight years' experience developing bioinformatics methods for large-scale protein structure and microbial genome analysis, currently working with the Steinegger Lab at Seoul National University and KBSI. He combines a PhD in biomathematics/bioinformatics with hands-on software development—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Foldseek and implementing workflow automation and C++ modules to scale structure comparisons. His background includes creating widely used comparative genomics tools during a PhD at UWA and automating end-to-end microbial sequencing pipelines in applied screening projects. Comfortable moving between research, engineering and collaboration across international teams, he blends rigorous computational methods with practical tooling to accelerate structural and biosynthetic pathway discovery. An uncommon strength is his track record of shipping both reproducible research code and user-facing CLI workflows that improve usability for large datasets.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biomathematics Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at The University of Western AustraliaKorean Studies Summer Program, Korean Studies Summer Program at Sogang University
Korean
Github Skills (13)
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bioinformatics9
algorithms8
command-line-interface8
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data-structure8
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
steineggerlab/foldseek
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 6 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Cameron contributed to the `foldseek` project by fixing examples in the help menu and creating new files (`easymsa.sh`, `EasyMSA.cpp`). These contributions included modifying existing code, implementing shell scripts for workflow automation and creating a C++ file for the EasyMSA function. The changes suggest improvements to the usability and functionality of the command-line interface and new workflow.
protein-structurealignmentssensitivecomparisonsbioinformatics
gamcil/foldseek
May 2022 - Nov 2023
Foldseek enables fast and sensitive comparisons of large structure sets. It reaches sensitivities similar to state-of-the-art structural aligners while being at least 20,000 times faster.
Contributions:9 PRs, 83 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 5 months
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