Bioinformatician : Norwich, United Kingdom

Job ID: 619217
Job date: 2017-07-14
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Company : The Earlham Institute 

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Role : Technician 


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Job Description:
The Earlham Institute (EI, Norwich, UK) is looking for a highly motivated bioinformatician to join our Core Bioinformatics Group to deliver high-quality data analysis pipelines that support the Institute’s Core Strategic Programmes and National Capability in Genomics and Single Cell analysis (NCGS).

The role:

This role will have primary responsibility for building and maintaining computational workflows that assure timely and accurate processing of sequencing data from EI’s numerous and varied sequencing platforms. The post-holder will work alongside members of our genomics and project management teams to develop and implement quality assurance metrics, increase automation of tasks and assess new sequencing applications.

The role will also involve working on a wide variety of bioinformatics projects in conjunction with our internal science faculty as well as external customers and collaborators. Projects will range in scale, type and complexity, from variant calling analyses on model organisms, to custom differential expression analyses, or de novo genome assembly and annotation of complex non-model organisms. The role will also involve building, extending and automating pipelines, where possible, to increase capability for delivering future projects.

Required qualifications and experience:

The ideal candidate will possess an MSc or higher in bioinformatics or computer science, or have substantial relevant experience.

The postholder will have demonstrated experience of developing production quality software, and the ability to work and develop code as part of a team. They will also possess a high level of skills and experience of Perl, Python and Bash scripting, including the ability to interpret legacy code. The ideal candidate will also have demonstrable experience of successful project management.


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Additional Info:
Salary on appointment will be within the range £30,750 to £37,750 per annum depending on qualifications and experience. This is a full time post with a contract of three years.

For further information and details of how to apply, please visit our web site http://jobs.earlham.ac.uk/ or contact Human Resources, Norwich BioScience Institutes Partnership, Norwich Research Park, Colney, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK, 01603 450462 quoting reference 1003273.

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee to offer an interview to all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for this vacancy.

The closing date for applications will be 30th July 2017.

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