Hi, I'm Tom Stanton — bridging wet-lab microbiology and high-performance code to decode bacterial pathogens.
I'm a Research Fellow in the Wyres Lab at Monash University, building open-source tools like Kaptive for in silico serotyping, antigen prediction, and genomic surveillance of priority antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
I'm Tom. I was born in Margate, England and grew up (mostly) in the sleepy coastal town of Birchington, England. I was interested in science from an early age but didn't have a formal scientific education in primary school. I navigated the UK's public selective school entrance exams and secured a place at Chatham House Grammar School for Boys, now known as Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School, in Ramsgate, England.
Fast and accurate in silico serotyping and surface polysaccharide locus typing for bacterial genomes.
A bioinformatics tool for identifying and annotating iron-regulated outer membrane proteins (IROMPs) in bacterial genomes.
Python bindings to FragGeneScanRs for fast, error-tolerant bacterial open reading frame (ORF) prediction.