Job Company: Pirbright Institute

Organisation position and purpose:The successful applications will help manage the production and analysis of host and pathogen data obtained from long and short read sequencing machines operating inside its containment facility. In addition to developing its own research lines, the Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics group administers a state of the art computer cluster... [More]

The Pirbright Institute is seeking a Bioinformatician for the large amount of sequence data produced, thanks to its sequencing facility in containment sporting a modern computer cluster with 500 CPU cores and 0.5 PB of disk space. The successful candidate will join the Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics group led by Dr Paolo Ribeca. [More]

The Pirbright Institute, an institute of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), is a unique national centre that works through its highly innovative fundamental and applied bioscience to enhance the UK capability to contain, control, and eliminate viral diseases of animals and viruses that spread from animals to humans. We thereby support the competitiveness of UK livestock and poultry producers, and improve the health and quality of life of both animals and people. [More]