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Job date: 2018-05-01
End Date: 2018-06-30
Company : Oak Ridge Associated Universities Country : United States Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-05-01
End Date: 2018-06-30
Company : Oak Ridge Associated Universities Country : United States Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
A graduate research opportunity in computational biology is available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit (CICGRU) in Ames, IA. The participant will be involved in a project that will evaluate and help improve methods for gene family construction and evaluation, including methods for comparing among collections of gene families generated using various methods. The participant will gain experience using computational tools such as include BLAST, MUSCLE, mcl (Markov clustering), HMMER, RAxML, FastTree. Gene families will be compared using various statistical methods, including concepts from machine learning (e.g. precision and recall). The appointment is full-time for 3 months with an anticipated start date in late-May/early-June. The selected applicant will receive a stipend as support for their living and other expenses during this appointment. Stipend rates are determined by ARS officials, and are based on the applicant’s academic and professional background. The participant must show proof of health and medical insurance. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE. The participant will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, USDA, ARS, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment. While participants will not enter into an employment relationship with ARS, this position requires a pre-appointment check and a full background investigation. This opportunity is available to U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR), and foreign nationals. Non-U.S. citizen applicants should refer to the Guidelines for Non-U.S. Citizens Details page of the program website for information about the valid immigration statuses that are acceptable for program participation. For more information about the ARS Research Participation Program, please visit the Program Website .
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A graduate research opportunity in computational biology is available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Corn Insects and Crop Genetics Research Unit (CICGRU) in Ames, IA. The participant will be involved in a project that will evaluate and help improve methods for gene family construction and evaluation, including methods for comparing among collections of gene families generated using various methods. The participant will gain experience using computational tools such as include BLAST, MUSCLE, mcl (Markov clustering), HMMER, RAxML, FastTree. Gene families will be compared using various statistical methods, including concepts from machine learning (e.g. precision and recall). The appointment is full-time for 3 months with an anticipated start date in late-May/early-June. The selected applicant will receive a stipend as support for their living and other expenses during this appointment. Stipend rates are determined by ARS officials, and are based on the applicant’s academic and professional background. The participant must show proof of health and medical insurance. Health insurance can be obtained through ORISE. The participant will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, USDA, ARS, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment. While participants will not enter into an employment relationship with ARS, this position requires a pre-appointment check and a full background investigation. This opportunity is available to U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR), and foreign nationals. Non-U.S. citizen applicants should refer to the Guidelines for Non-U.S. Citizens Details page of the program website for information about the valid immigration statuses that are acceptable for program participation. For more information about the ARS Research Participation Program, please visit the Program Website .
Qualifications
Applicants are expected to have a bachelor's degree in biology, genetics, biotechnology, bioinformatics, computer science, or related discipline, and have completed some graduate-level coursework in computational biology. Must have had experience working in the Unix command line environment and be familiar with major sequence analysis methods in computational biology, including methods for sequence search, alignment, clustering, and phylogenetic reconstruction. Preferred skills and knowledge: Understanding of concepts in evolutionary biology, plant biology, machine learning, and genomic sequence analysis methods Fluency in one or more scripting or programming languages used in computational biology, e.g. perl, python, Bash, awk, C, C++Requeriments :
Skills :
- Computational Biology
- Evolutionary Biology
- genomic
- Lunix/Unix
- Machine Learning
- Plant Biology
- Programing in C
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in PERL
- Statistics
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