Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Biocurator and Lead Biocurator/Senior Bioinformatician Recruitment

POST: Biocurator and Lead Biocurator/Senior Bioinformatician
START DATE: As soon as possible  
           
EMPLOYMENT FRACTION: Unspecified 
           
CITY: BGI, Hong Kong SAR  
             
APPLICATION DEADLINE: As soon as possible

JOB REFERENCE: Biocurator and Lead Biocurator/Senior Bioinformatician

JOB DESCRIPTION
The successful candidates will be aiding in the development and management of BGI’s public and private databases.

Job duties include:
  • The curation and management of a variety of data-types
  • Working with a team of editors, bioinformaticians and database administrators to compile and format large, highly-dimensional data sets
  • QC of biological data to confirm quality and remove process-based trends
  • The development and extension of standard formats, semantic support and data processing applications for biological data
  • The management of data deposition and exchange
  • The training and supervision of on-site staff
ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
Biocurator applicants should have Master’s or doctoral degree in a relevant scientific field and previous experience working as a biocurator. Experience with the use of minimal information checklists, exchange formats and terminologies/ontologies is highly sought.

Lead Biocurator/Senior bioinformatician applicants should have Master’s or doctoral degree in a relevant scientific field and previous experience working as a bioinformatician. Management experience is required. Programming skills (Perl, etc.) and a background in working with high-throughput biological data are also required. Experience with statistical programming and QC tools such as R, Bioconductor, Plink, GISTIC as well as SQL is also a plus, as is experience in database design and cloud computing. Experience with the use of minimal information checklists, exchange formats and terminologies/ontologies (see above) would also be highly advantageous.

Successful candidates must be flexible, detail-oriented and prepared to stay abreast of new biological data types as experimental technology changes.
PLEASE SEND YOUR APPLICATION TO
Send your CV, the names of references and a letter of motivation by email to: scott.edmunds@genomics.org.cn

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