Dear colleagues: thanks to the generosity of EMBL, we have another position available at EMDB (note that this is not the same as the one I posted in June). I would appreciate if you could circulate this announcement. Feel free to contact me directly for further information about this position. Thank you! -Christoph -- | Dr Christoph Best <[log in to unmask]> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~best | Project Leader Electron Microscopy Data Bank, PDB Europe | European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK +44-1223-492649 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMDB, the Electron Microscopy Data Bank at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, has a staff position opening for a Scientific Programmer / Software Engineer We are looking for someone with very good software engineering skills (target platform is GNU/Linux and Mac OSX, primary languages Java and Python, focus on web-based interfaces and distributed applications/grids/clouds), a background in any of bioinformatics/computer science/image processing, structural biology, or (bio-)physics or applied mathematics, a good grasp of mathematical and statistical algorithms, and a track record of developing and maintaining scientific software. A willingless to understand the underlying biological problems is essential. This post is part of a joint NIH project with Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston. Example topics to work on would be to improve the EMDB user experience both during deposition and retrieval, provide better tools for the visualization and analysis of large complex data sets in EMDB, integrate EMDB with other databases and semantic retrieval tools (e.g. through ontologies), develop tools for statistical assessment of image quality, and figure out how to use the emerging grid/cloud computing infrastructures for storage and computation of EMDB data (e.g. through integration with workflow tools). EMDB is part of the PDBe team at EBI. More information about EMDB can be found on its web pages at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb Feel free to contact me <[log in to unmask]> directly for further information about this post. The post is an EMBL staff position with an initial contract for two years. Further details can be found in the job posting at http://www.embl.de/aboutus/jobs/jobs_embl_ebi_hinxton/2010/bioinformaticians/w_09_109_ebi/index.html Please note that applications must be sent only to <[log in to unmask]> quoting reference no. W/09/109 in the subject. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------