Job ID: EBI_01200
Job date: 2018-05-03
End Date: 2018-06-03
Company : EMBL Country : United Kingdom Role : Technician
Job date: 2018-05-03
End Date: 2018-06-03
Company : EMBL Country : United Kingdom Role : Technician
Job Description:
We are seeking to recruit a Bioinformatician/Software Engineer to join the Protein function development team at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. This team is responsible for major international protein sequence resources including the Universal Protein resource (UniProt). The candidate will be part of the development team that maintains the databases, software and analysis pipelines for the production and release of the UniProt protein sequence databases. (S)he will be expected to gain a good understanding of the group projects and design, organize and develop the full lifecycle of our resources in close interaction with the team members at EBI as well as at the international teams involved in these projects. This is a central role in the production and development of services for crucial biological services for the scientific community. The primary responsibilities include:
Additional Info:
Location: Hinxton Salary: £2,552 + monthly starting salary after tax (Grade 5). Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 2nd May 2018 Closes: 3rd June 2018 Job Ref: EBI_01200 The EBI is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community, with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) provides a central resource on protein information and a solid set of services and computational analysis of protein data. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium – a collaboration between the EBI, the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). Benefits EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation. We have an informal culture, international working environment and excellent professional development opportunities but one of the really amazing things about us is the concentration of technical and scientific expertise – something you probably won’t find anywhere else. If you’ve ever visited the campus you’ll have experienced first-hand our friendly, collegial and supportive atmosphere. Application Instructions: To apply please submit a covering letter and CV, with two referees, through our online system. Additional Information Applications are welcome from all nationalities. EMBL-EBI is committed to achieving gender balance and strongly encourages applications from women. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
We are seeking to recruit a Bioinformatician/Software Engineer to join the Protein function development team at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. This team is responsible for major international protein sequence resources including the Universal Protein resource (UniProt). The candidate will be part of the development team that maintains the databases, software and analysis pipelines for the production and release of the UniProt protein sequence databases. (S)he will be expected to gain a good understanding of the group projects and design, organize and develop the full lifecycle of our resources in close interaction with the team members at EBI as well as at the international teams involved in these projects. This is a central role in the production and development of services for crucial biological services for the scientific community. The primary responsibilities include:
- Design and develop new data production pipelines for biological databases in the Protein Function development team
- Maintain and optimise existing production pipeline scripts and software modules
- Organise, execute, monitor, and troubleshoot production procedures on daily basis in synchronisation with other staff members
- Assess new technologies and methods to improve database production environment
- Evaluate and develop pipelines for importing new data sources
- Maintain and ensure highest quality and consistency of the data throughout data production
- Evaluate and propose solutions to biological challenges within data production
- Communicate and coordinate production work with UniProt Consortium members, software developers, and biologists involved in the database release cycle
Qualifications and Experience
Essential Skills- Ideally 2 years or adequate demonstrable experience in working with biological data and writing complex code
- Masters or higher degree in bioinformatics or computer science
- Good understanding and/or interest of biological data
- Strong programming skills: Bash, Perl, Python
- Strong knowledge of SQL: Oracle, PostgreSQL
- Comfortable operating in a Unix/Linux environment
- Excellent problem-solving skills with an ability to understand, debug and fix both data and production code
- Work under pressure to complete production tasks within specified deadlines
- Work independently or with minimal supervision
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Enthusiastic to learn and help the scientific community
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Additional Info:
Location: Hinxton Salary: £2,552 + monthly starting salary after tax (Grade 5). Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 2nd May 2018 Closes: 3rd June 2018 Job Ref: EBI_01200 The EBI is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community, with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) provides a central resource on protein information and a solid set of services and computational analysis of protein data. UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium – a collaboration between the EBI, the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). Benefits EMBL is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer offering attractive conditions and benefits appropriate to an international research organisation. We have an informal culture, international working environment and excellent professional development opportunities but one of the really amazing things about us is the concentration of technical and scientific expertise – something you probably won’t find anywhere else. If you’ve ever visited the campus you’ll have experienced first-hand our friendly, collegial and supportive atmosphere. Application Instructions: To apply please submit a covering letter and CV, with two referees, through our online system. Additional Information Applications are welcome from all nationalities. EMBL-EBI is committed to achieving gender balance and strongly encourages applications from women. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]