Imaging Informatician

Job ID: 511029350
Job date: 2017-12-14
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Company : EMBL-EBI 

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Job Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated Imaging informatics specialist with a background in biology to help integrate imaging and spatial transcriptomics data into the Data Coordination Platform (DCP) for the HCA. You will work at EMBL-EBI located on the Wellcome Genome Campus, near Cambridge, in the UK.

This position involves the following responsibilities:

  • Working with HCA imaging projects to capture metadata requirements.
  • Developing metadata standards to capture key information about imaging experiments and image data in order to facilitate data re-use and integration within the Human Cell Atlas project and beyond.
  • Working with the developers of informatics processing pipelines to incorporate systems for capturing metadata into their pipelines.
Qualifications and Experience:

You should hold an MSc, PhD, or have equivalent experience in biological sciences, biomedical Imaging, bioinformatics or related fields. You should have experience of image-processing and analysis techniques and some coding ability relevant to image analysis pipelines (R, Python; use of Jupyter notebooks). You should also have a good understanding of modern image-based transcriptomics techniques such as Seq-FISH or Mer-FISH.

A good knowledge of human or mouse anatomy would be an advantage as would some background and experience in bioinformatics. Some experience in working with ontologies would also be an advantage but is not essential.

You should possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills and should also work well both independently and within a team environment. The ideal candidate will be able to use their own initiative to create and drive projects to a conclusion.


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Additional Info:
Do you want to work as part of the HCA project to define comprehensive reference maps of all human cells? The HCA is using single cell gene expression techniques as the basis for both understanding human health and understanding different disease mechanisms. We are building and supporting the infrastructure and content standards which will be used by the HCA.

At EMBL-EBI, we help scientists realise the potential of ‘big data’ in biology by enabling them to exploit complex information to make discoveries that benefit mankind. Working for EMBL-EBI gives you an opportunity to apply your skills and energy for the greater good. As part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, we are a non-profit, intergovernmental organisation funded by 23 member states and two associate member states and proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are located on the Wellcome Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK, and our 600 staff are engineers, technicians, scientists and other professionals from all over the world.

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