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The iPlant Collaborative is a major initiative aimed at creating a software platform that enables a wide community of plant biologists to make use of advanced computational tools in order to analyse large data sets. The Warwick Systems Biology Centre have developed a set of software tools which have proven effective in past and on-going research projects. These include tools to detect differential gene expression, to infer regulatory networks from transcriptomic data, to analyse sequence data, and to process DNase-seq high-throughput sequencing data. While these tools are known to provide users with meaningful information severe practical obstacles are preventing more wide-spread use by researchers without a computational background: lack of computational speed, the need for command line usage, and the lack of an integrated and graphical interface.
You will overcome this bottleneck by integrating a set of Warwick Systems Biology tools into the iPlant environment. Depending on the tool this may involve re-coding in a faster language (C or C++), parallelising computations using iPlant's framework, adapting the tool to iPlant interfaces, as well as testing and following up on user feedback. The outcome of this project will be a substantially widened user base and a step-change in the impact that computational tool development at Warwick Systems Biology has on plant science nationally as well as internationally.
You will have a degree (BSc or MSc) in a computing, bioinformatics, or related area and a strong interest in creating easily usable and reliable software that makes a difference.
The post is a Fixed Term Contract until 30 June 2016 at an expected salary of £28,695 to £37,394 per annum. Hours negotiable: part-time workers and contractors are welcome to apply.
For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jim Beynon Jim.Beynon@warwick.ac.uk or Professor David Wild D.L.Wild@warwick.ac.uk.
For more information about the iPlant UK project, please see this GARNet news story: http://www.garnetcommunity.org.uk/node/630, and/or read this Journal of Experimental Botany paper: http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/eru402?ijkey=KjwSPLzfuuaH1wc&keytype=ref.
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The iPlant Collaborative is a major initiative aimed at creating a software platform that enables a wide community of plant biologists to make use of advanced computational tools in order to analyse large data sets. The Warwick Systems Biology Centre have developed a set of software tools which have proven effective in past and on-going research projects. These include tools to detect differential gene expression, to infer regulatory networks from transcriptomic data, to analyse sequence data, and to process DNase-seq high-throughput sequencing data. While these tools are known to provide users with meaningful information severe practical obstacles are preventing more wide-spread use by researchers without a computational background: lack of computational speed, the need for command line usage, and the lack of an integrated and graphical interface.
You will overcome this bottleneck by integrating a set of Warwick Systems Biology tools into the iPlant environment. Depending on the tool this may involve re-coding in a faster language (C or C++), parallelising computations using iPlant's framework, adapting the tool to iPlant interfaces, as well as testing and following up on user feedback. The outcome of this project will be a substantially widened user base and a step-change in the impact that computational tool development at Warwick Systems Biology has on plant science nationally as well as internationally.
You will have a degree (BSc or MSc) in a computing, bioinformatics, or related area and a strong interest in creating easily usable and reliable software that makes a difference.
The post is a Fixed Term Contract until 30 June 2016 at an expected salary of £28,695 to £37,394 per annum. Hours negotiable: part-time workers and contractors are welcome to apply.
For informal enquiries please contact Professor Jim Beynon Jim.Beynon@warwick.ac.uk or Professor David Wild D.L.Wild@warwick.ac.uk.
For more information about the iPlant UK project, please see this GARNet news story: http://www.garnetcommunity.org.uk/node/630, and/or read this Journal of Experimental Botany paper: http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/eru402?ijkey=KjwSPLzfuuaH1wc&keytype=ref.
This job comes from a partnership with Science Magazine and
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