Tom Shorter
Bioinformatics Software Engineer
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Shorter is a Bioinformatics Software Engineer with eight years' experience applying Python, Perl and Java to research-driven drug discovery workflows. He transitioned from academic development at the University of Leicester to an industry role at Astex Pharmaceuticals, bringing a strong grounding in algorithmic bioinformatics and a Distinction MSc in Bioinformatics. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has hands-on experience building tools that support molecular and cheminformatics analyses for therapeutic discovery. Earlier roles in corporate investigation and administration have honed his attention to detail and process-oriented approach to reproducible code and data curation. Based in the UK, he combines scientific domain knowledge with practical software engineering to accelerate translational research. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who turns complex biological questions into automatable, well-documented solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
biomedical science, upper second class, biomedical science, upper second class at Bangor UniversityMaster's degree, Bioinformatics, Distinction, Master's degree, Bioinformatics, Distinction at University of Leicester
Github Skills (37)
corpus10
doi10
semantics10
pipeline10
text-processing10
open-access10
nlp10
genome-annotation9
collaboration9
genome8
genomics8
beacon8
biology8
bioinformatics8
jbrowse7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
omicsNLP/Auto-CORPus
Aug 2021 - Jun 2022
Auto-CORPus pipeline developed by a University of Nottingham and Imperial College London collaboration to standardize text and table data extracted from full text publications. See Open Access publication at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2022.788124.
Contributions:1 review, 157 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
open-accessstandardizetext-processingcollaborationsemantics
Tom-Shorter/autoCORPus
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 days
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