Walk- in- Test cum Interview (based on test) for the selection of Research Associate

under the scheme “Distributed Information Sub Centre –DISC” & Research Assistant under scheme “Phytophthora, Fusarium and Ralstonia diseases of Horticultural and Field Crops” will be held at this Institute as per details indicated below.

WALK -IN- TEST CUM INTERVIEW

Name of the post : Research Associate

Date of Interview : 21-05-2014 at 10.00 AM

No. of posts : One

Qualifications : a)Essential

Ph.D Degree in Bioinformatics OR : Masters degree in Bioinformatics with a minimum of
60% marks or equivalent OGPA with at least two years research experience as evidenced from fellowship/ associateship/training/published papers etc.

b)Desirable: Experience in NGS data analysis.

Emoluments : Rs. 23,000/- per month + HRA (Masters Degree Holders)

Rs. 24,000/- per month + HRA (Ph.D Degree Holders)

Upper age limit : 40 years for Men & 45 years for Women as on date of Interview (Upper Age limits are relaxable for SC, ST and OBC candidates as per Govt. of India norms (at present 5 years for SC/ST and 3 years for OBC)

Duration of Project : Till 31-03-2017.

Title of Assigment : Research Assistant (on contract basis)

No. of vacancy : One

Qualification : Essential : Post Graduation in Bioinformatics and Minimum one year experience in NGS data analysis

Desirable : Experience in Perl/Python/R

Remuneration : Rs. 20,000/- per month (consolidated)

Scope of work :

1. Analysis of different file formats and their conversions.

2. Assessing the quality of data and filtering of raw reads.
3. Assembling the raw reads-de novo as well as reference mapping.
4. Compression of aligned reads using Jam tools
5. RNA-seq. Analysis
6. Differential expression testing involving Normalization, Statistical testing, heat map generation & hierarchical clustering
7. Annotating the assembled genome and geneet testing and their validation
8. Metabolic pathway analysis
9. Comparative genomics
10. Setting up of genome browsers.

Period of Assigment : Initially for six months.

Date & Venue of Interview : 21-05-2014 at IISR, Kozhikode at 10.00 AM

More at http://www.spices.res.in/pdf/disc-advtmnt.pdf

Experience Required: 3-5 years of experience

No of Positions : Multiple

Qualifications: Candidates with minimum qualification as M.Sc Bioinformatics with 3-5 years of experience in Life sciences R&D or Pharma Industry.

Ph.D candidates with research experience in Bioinformatics with publications in International journal and minimum 2 years of industry experience in clinical genomics will be preferred for this position.

Requirement:

1. Must have basic understanding of molecular biology and Genomics.

2. Experience in application development or must have expertise in programming using either of Perl/Python.

3. Experience in statistical programming using R/Bioconductor/Matlab.

4. Strong concept in statistical and mathematical modelling.

5. Experience in designing and developing the bioinformatics pipeline.

6. Must have minimum 2+ years of hands on experience in NSG data analysis such as RNA-Seq,Exome-Seq ,Chip-Seq and downstream analysis.

7. Knowledge in WGS ,WES, Targeted re-sequencing,GWAS and population genomics will be preferred.

8. Must have experience working on opensource software/Framework and commercial software for NGS data analysis and reporting.

9. Should be aware of handling big data and guiding team members on multiple projects simultaneously.

10. Should have experience coordinating with different groups of clinical research scientist for various project requirements.

11. Ability to work as team as well as independently with minimal support.

More at http://www.ocimumbio.com/careers1/

If you currently use a spreadsheet like Microsoft Excel for data analysis, you might be interested in taking a look at this tutorial on how to transition from Excel to R by Tony Ojeda. The tutorial explains how to use R functions in place of Excel formulas, including tools like =AVERAGE and =VLOOKUP. For the most part, it uses modern R packages to keep the R code clear and concise.

You'll likely still be using Excel as a data source, though, so you'll also want to check out this guide to importing data from Excel to R from MilanoR.

Reference http://www.r-bloggers.com/an-r-tutorial-for-microsoft-excel-users/

• Function(data, options)

Even quit is a function

• q()

So is help

help(read.table)

Provides the help page for the FUNCTION ‘read.table’

help.search(“t test”)

Searches for help pages that might relate to the phrase ‘t test’

NOTE: quotes are needed for search strings, they are not needed when referring to data objects or function names.

There is a short cut for help,

? shows the help page on a function name, same as help(function)

?read.table

?? searches for help pages on functions, same as help.search(‘phrase’)

??“t test”

Information is usually returned from a function, by default this is printed to screen

read.table(‘data.tsv’)

This can always be stored, we call what it is stored in an ‘object’

mydata

here mydata is an object of type dataframe

Reminder:

• Vector: a list of numbers, equivalent to a column in a table
• Data Frame = a collection of vectors. Equivalent to a table

Hint:

• Up/Down arrow keys can be use to cycle through previous commands

We are also interested in the large-scale integration of genomic, expression, methylation and proteomic data sets, as well as the application of whole genome sequence analysis in clinical diagnostics.

More at http://millslab.ccmb.med.umich.edu/index.html

Current research interests include next-generation DNA sequencing, structural variation, genome rearrangements in cancer and evolution, and network analysis of somatic mutations in cancer. Earlier research included topics in comparative genomics, multiple sequence alignment, and motif finding.

More athttp://compbio.cs.brown.edu/