Preston Basting
Staff Bioinformatics Engineer
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPreston Basting is a Staff Bioinformatics Engineer with eight years of experience building reproducible genomics pipelines and production bioinformatics tooling, currently based in San Diego and working at Illumina. He blends hands-on engineering—packaging and automating bioinformatics software for ecosystems like Bioconda—with academic rigor from an MS in Bioinformatics at the University of Georgia, where he developed the McClintock pipeline and assembled novel Wolbachia genomes. His work spans sequencing technologies (PacBio, Nanopore, 10X, SMRT kinetic analysis) and practical deployment concerns, moving research-grade analyses into robust, reproducible workflows. An experienced contributor to bioconda-recipes, he focuses on build automation and dependency integration that help the community install complex bioinformatics tools reliably.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics, Master of Science - MS Bioinformatics at University of Georgia - Franklin College of Arts and SciencesBachelor of Science - BS Biology General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General at Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Github Skills (9)
bioinformatics10
conda10
package-management10
bash9
python8
makefile7
gnu-make7
dockers3
docker3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Mar 2019 - Apr 2020
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:7 commits, 14 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Preston primarily contributes to the creation and modification of recipes for the bioconda channel. Their work includes adding new recipes like `jobtree`, `kyototycoon`, `cactus`, and `isescan`, which involves writing build scripts, patching code, and integrating dependencies. These contributions focus on building and packaging bioinformatics software, including configuration for activation and deactivation.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
pbasting/NodeStat
Dec 2018 - Nov 2020
Contributions:18 commits, 13 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 11 months
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