Matt Settles
Managing Director, Bioinformatics
Woodland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Settles is a genomics-focused bioinformatics leader with over a decade of experience designing, generating and analyzing very large biological data sets. He has progressed from evolutionary computation and applied bioinformatics to directing state-of-the-art core facilities and commercial bioinformatics teams, currently serving as Managing Director, Bioinformatics at UCSF and founder of Amplimer Consulting. Matt combines hands-on experimental genomics expertise with method development, routinely adapting tools across domains to ask novel biological questions spanning functional, evolutionary, and microbiome genomics. He holds a PhD in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and a background in computer engineering, giving him rare fluency across wet-lab, computational, and operational domains. Known for translating complex projects into practical pipelines, he excels at scaling core capabilities for diverse academic and industry collaborators.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of PortlandDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at University of Idaho
English
Github Skills (26)
sequence-analysis10
next-generation-sequencing10
sequencing10
rna-seq10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
streaming10
linux9
genome-assembly9
logic9
illumina9
flash8
genomes8
on-demand6
chip-seq6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dstreett/FLASH2
Feb 2015 - Jun 2020
Flash2 has some improvements from flash_1 including new logic from innie and outie overlaps as well as some initial steps for flash for amplicons
Contributions:1 release, 1 tag, 13 comments in 5 years 4 months
ampliconsflashstepsimprovementslogic
ucdavis-bioinformatics-training/2018-June-RNA-Seq-Workshop
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Focused multi-day workshop covering the material needed for a successful RNA-Seq experiment.
Contributions:39 commits, 30 pushes in 15 days
rna-seq
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