Job Description:
Research Fellow / Programmer
University of Birmingham - School of Immunity and Infection
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £28,695 to £37,394 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 25th August 2015
Closes: 7th September 2015
Job Ref: 54484
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Fixed term for 4 years
Starting salary £28,695 a year, in a range up to £37,394 a year, with potential progression to £39,685 a year.
We are seeking a programmer who wishes to use their skills to tackle important questions facing society such as the emergence of new infectious diseases, the development of antibiotic resistance and securing our food supply against pathogens.
We have started an innovative service, MicrobesNG (http://microbesng.uk), which aims to provide genome sequencing to the UK microbiology community at an unprecedented scale. We aim to sequence over 100,000 genomes during the lifetime of the project, with a turnaround time to be less than 2 weeks from sample to answer. This will help accelerate the pace of biological research.
This ambitious service requires a full-time dedicated computer programmer who will help us build high quality databases linked to user friendly web interfaces to handle the flow of data through the system, from the initial online ordering, quality control of samples, sequencing data and returned analysis.
This role does not require any biological knowledge, but is an ideal position for those with strong technical skills wishing to broaden their horizons.
You will be working with a dedicated team of microbiologists, laboratory experts, bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Underpinning this project is an £8.5m funded cloud computing infrastructure - CLIMB (www.climb.ac.uk) - locally hosted in Birmingham which provides >3 petabytes of usable data storage and an on-demand virtual computing environment (similar to Amazon EC2), so you will have ample computing resources to help cope with the technical demands of the project.
For informal enquiries please contact Nick Loman (n.j.loman@bham.ac.uk)
To download the details of this position and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button below, please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs.
Valuing excellence; sustaining investment
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Research Fellow / Programmer
University of Birmingham - School of Immunity and Infection
Location: Birmingham
Salary: £28,695 to £37,394 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Placed on: 25th August 2015
Closes: 7th September 2015
Job Ref: 54484
College of Medical and Dental Sciences
Fixed term for 4 years
Starting salary £28,695 a year, in a range up to £37,394 a year, with potential progression to £39,685 a year.
We are seeking a programmer who wishes to use their skills to tackle important questions facing society such as the emergence of new infectious diseases, the development of antibiotic resistance and securing our food supply against pathogens.
We have started an innovative service, MicrobesNG (http://microbesng.uk), which aims to provide genome sequencing to the UK microbiology community at an unprecedented scale. We aim to sequence over 100,000 genomes during the lifetime of the project, with a turnaround time to be less than 2 weeks from sample to answer. This will help accelerate the pace of biological research.
This ambitious service requires a full-time dedicated computer programmer who will help us build high quality databases linked to user friendly web interfaces to handle the flow of data through the system, from the initial online ordering, quality control of samples, sequencing data and returned analysis.
This role does not require any biological knowledge, but is an ideal position for those with strong technical skills wishing to broaden their horizons.
You will be working with a dedicated team of microbiologists, laboratory experts, bioinformaticians and computational biologists. Underpinning this project is an £8.5m funded cloud computing infrastructure - CLIMB (www.climb.ac.uk) - locally hosted in Birmingham which provides >3 petabytes of usable data storage and an on-demand virtual computing environment (similar to Amazon EC2), so you will have ample computing resources to help cope with the technical demands of the project.
For informal enquiries please contact Nick Loman (n.j.loman@bham.ac.uk)
To download the details of this position and submit an electronic application online please click on the Apply Online button below, please quote Job Reference in all enquiries. Alternatively information can be obtained from: www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs.
Valuing excellence; sustaining investment
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