Matthew Bashton
Associate Professor
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatthew Bashton is an Associate Professor and experienced bioinformatician with over a decade of expertise spanning structural bioinformatics, high-throughput sequencing, and genomic surveillance. He combines foundational training from a PhD at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and postdoctoral work at EMBL‑EBI with practical leadership roles at Northumbria and Newcastle, including university HPC lead and contribution to COG-UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. His work bridges protein domain/ligand annotation and cancer genomics pipelines to applied viral genome and protein design problems, increasingly exploring ligand binding and generative AI for protein engineering. Notably, he developed PROCOGNATE-style resources and HPC-optimized variant-calling and Shiny-based ML tools for tumour classification, showing a rare mix of deep structural insight and production-oriented bioinformatics. Based in Newcastle, he delivers research-driven solutions that move smoothly from database curation and algorithm development to high-throughput clinical and environmental genomics.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Structural Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Structural Bioinformatics at University of CambridgeBiochemistry, 2:1, Biochemistry, 2:1 at University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
English
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Github Skills (43)
viewer10
predictor10
structural-variation9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
rna-seq9
fasta8
pypi8
caller8
fastq8
seq8
scheme8
annotations8
aggregate7
visualization7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MattBashton/MB-GATK-SGE
Jun 2015 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 releases, 330 commits, 319 pushes in 6 years 2 months
MattBashton/grolar
Jun 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:26 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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