ICRISAT is headquartered in Patancheru near Hyderabad, India, with two regional hubs and five country offices in sub-Saharan Africa. ICRISAT, established in 1972, is a member of the CGIAR Consortium. For more details, see www.icrisat.org.

Responsibilities:Design efficient SQL queries for pulling large sequencing projects.
Serve as a technical adviser to the project leadership and provide computational perspective on product design and deliverability.
Develop and oversee a rapid and incremental software development and release schedule.
Design the software architecture, oversee the implementation and evolution of the design on appropriate hardware platforms.
Working collaboratively in a team environment to design, code, test, debug, and document programs for an integrated genomic analysis pipeline in a rapid and incremental software development and release schedule.
Supervise and review code development and ensure that software products meet project objectives in terms of functionality, scalability, robustness and user experience.
Implement and oversee the QA/QC practices to ensure the development team is adhering to quality standards.
Work closely with the application specialist to integrate feedbacks from teams in each CGIAR center into software customization and improvement.
Assist in training of breeders in the CGIAR centers to use software developed.
Personal Profile:

The applicant should have:

Understanding of genomics data and advanced knowledge of Java, and C/C++ as the programming languages and any of the scripting language like perl and/or Python, SQL
High Performance Computing, data architecture, database platforms and QA/QC practices in software engineering.
She/he should have solid experience in software development projects, preferably as a senior programmer or in the software project management role, and in projects involving big data.
Excellent communication skills are needed to work in this multi-disciplinary, multi-location and multi-cultural team.
Ability to mentor colleagues in quality software development practices is desired.
Educational Qualification : Ph. D or Masters Degree in Computational Biology / Computational Genomics or Equivalent with Research Experience in Mentioned Areas.

More at http://www.icrisat.org/careers/

Bhubaneswar 751023

Advt No. 07/2016

Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), Bhubaneswar, an autonomous Institute of the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India engaged in advanced research invites applications from Indian nationals for the Ph.D. program. The main focus of the projects will be computational biology in the following areas.

S. No. Area of Research Principal investigator

1. Computational Cancer Biology Dr. Anshuman Dixit

2. Immunogenomics & Systems Biology Dr. Sunil Kumar Raghav

3. Chromatin remodeling and hematopoiesis Dr. Punit Prasad

Candidates are strongly encouraged to visit ILS webpage for detailed information, regarding the research activities of the above mentioned scientists.

Essential Qualifications:

(a) Eligibility: M.Sc., M.V.Sc., M.Pharm., M.S. Pharma. (with NET/GATE/GPAT/BINC/any other equivalent national level exam) or M.Tech with minimum of 60% marks (or equivalent grade point). Those awaiting final result may also apply.

Applications received after the last date will not be accepted. The envelope should clearly be superscribed with “Application for Ph.D. program (computational biology)”. Short-listed candidates selected for the interview will be published in the Institute website (www.ils.res.in).

Application Fees: Applicants except SC/ST candidates are required to send a non-refundable D.D. for Rs.100/- in favour of “Director, Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar” payable at Bhubaneswar along with duly filled-in application form by the date mentioned below. Director, ILS reserves the right to withdraw the procedure without assigning any reasons thereof.

Important dates: 

Last date of receiving applications: 24th June 2016 

Date of display of short-listed candidates and instructions on the Institute website: 30th June 2016 

Date of interview: The interview will be organized on 25th July 2016

Advertisement: https://www.ils.res.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/advt07-16.pdf

More at http://rgcb.res.in/TrainingPrograms/internship.php

PEAR evaluates all possible paired-end read overlaps and without requiring the target fragment size as input. In addition, it implements a statistical test for minimizing false-positive results. Together with a highly optimized implementation, it can merge millions of paired end reads within a couple of minutes on a standard desktop computer.

More at http://www.exelixis-lab.org/web/software/pear

Paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3933873/

Address of the bookmark: http://www.exelixis-lab.org/web/software/pear

1. National Science Foundation: For the love of science! Head here when searching for ways to pay for that gargantuan geology or bigtime biology project. And other disciplines, of course.
2. Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Humbolt fellows embody the spirit of science and leadership alike, and the organization sponsors thinkers in Germany and abroad alike.
3. National Parks Foundation: Americans who want to preserve their country’s gorgeous parks and trails pitch projects to this governing body, concerned largely with ecology and accessibility issues.
4. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation: Money is available here throughout the year, covering science and engineering and their overlaps with civics, education, and economics.
5. The Whitehall Foundation: The Whitehall Foundation, through its program of grants and grants-in-aid, assists scholarly research in the life sciences. It is the Foundation’s policy to assist those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by Federal Agencies or other foundations with specialized missions.
6. Human Frontier Science Program: Research grants from the Human Frontier Science Program are provided for teams of scientists from different countries who wish to combine their expertise in innovative approaches to questions that could not be answered by individual laboratories.
7. The U.S. Small Business Administration: The U.S. Small Business Administration offers research grants to small businesses that are engaged in scientific research and development projects that meet federal R&D objectives and have a high potential for commercialization.
8. The Welch Foundation: The Welch Foundation provides grants for a minimum of $60,000 in funding to support research in chemistry by a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member who serves as principal investigator. Applications are restricted to universities, colleges, or other educational institutions located within the state of Texas.
9. The Leakey Foundation: The Leakey Foundation offers research grants of up to $25,000 to doctoral and post-doctoral students as well as senior scientists, for research related specifically to human origins.
10. American College of Sports Medicine: The American College of Sports Medicine offers several possible grants to research students in the areas of general and applied science.
11. BD Biosciences: BD Biosciences Research Grants* aim to reward and enable important research by providing vital funding to scientists pursuing innovative experiments that advance the scientific understanding of disease. This ongoing program includes grants for immunology and stem cell research, totaling $240,000 annually in BD Biosciences research reagents.
12. Sigma Xi: The Sigma Xi program awards grants for research in areas of science, engineering, astronomy and vision.
13. The United Engineering Foundation: The United Engineering Foundation advances the engineering arts and sciences for the welfare of humanity. It supports engineering and education by, among other means, making grants.
14. National Institutes of Health: Foreign and American medical professionals hoping to advance their research might want to consider one of these prestigious (and generous) endowments.
15. Whitaker International Program: Biomedical engineering’s global reach serves as this organization’s focus, so applications here need to open themselves up to international institutions and applications.
16. U.S. National Library of Medicine: From tech to small businesses, the USNLM’s funding programs cover a diverse range of fields that feed into medicine.
17. American Heart Association: Most of the AHA’s research involves cardiovascular disease and stroke, with funding in these areas available in the winter and the summer.
18. Society for Women’s Health Research: Female engineers and scientists benefit from these grants meant to support anything that improves women’s health and education on a global scale.
19. Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: Every cent donated to the DRCRF directly feeds into fellowships and awards bringing humanity closer to cancer cures and improved prevention regimens.
20. Burroughs Wellcome Fund: Emerging scientists working in largely underrecognized and underfunded biomedical fields are the main recipients of this private foundation’s money.
21. The Foundation for Alcohol Research: As one can probably assume from the name, The Foundation for Alcohol Research contributes to projects studying how alcohol impacts human physical and mental health.
22. Alex’s Lemonade Stand: These grants go towards doctors, nurses, and medical researchers concerned with curing childhood cancer.
23. National Cancer Institute: Thanks to a little help from their friends in Congress, the National Cancer Institute have $4.9 billion to share with medical science.
24. Bush Foundation Fellowship Program: Leadership’s many forms are the main focus of the BFFP, who give money to folks dedicated to improving their communities.
25. The David & Lucile Packard Foundation: Nonprofit organizations dedicated to growing education, charities, health, and other social justice causes should consider seeing what money they can land through this foundation.
26. American Federation for Aging Research: AFAR provides up to $100,000 for a one- to two-year award to junior faculty (M.D.s and Ph.D.s) to conduct research that will serve as the basis for longer term research efforts in the areas of Biomedical and clinical research.
27. The Muscular Dystrophy Association: The MDA is pursuing the full spectrum of research approaches that are geared toward combating neuromuscular diseases. MDA also helps spread this scientific knowledge and train the next generation of scientific leaders by funding national and international research conferences and career development grants.
28. The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: The CF Foundation offers competitive awards for research related to cystic fibrosis. Studies may be carried out at the subcellular, cellular, animal, or patient levels. Two of these funding mechanisms include Pilot and Feasibility Awards and Research Grants.
29. The National Ataxia Foundation: The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) is committed to funding the best science relevant to hereditary and sporadic types of ataxia in both basic and translational research. NAF invites research applications from U.S.A. and International non-profit and for-profit institutions.
30. The March of Dimes: In keeping with its mission the March of Dimes research portfolio funds many different areas of research on topics related to preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.
31. The American Tinnitus Association: The American Tinnitus Association Research Grant Program financially supports scientific studies investigating tinnitus. Studies must be directly concerned with tinnitus and contribute to ATA’s goal of finding a cure.
32. American Brain Tumor Association: The American Brain Tumor Association provides multiple grants for scientists doing research in or around the field of brain tumor research.
33. American Cancer Society: The American Cancer Society also offers grants that support the clinical and/or research training of health professionals. These Health Professional Training Grants promote excellence in cancer prevention and control by providing incentive and support for highly qualified individuals in outstanding training programs or responsible for training.
34. Thrasher Research Fund: The Thrasher Research Fund provides grants for pediatric medical research. The Fund seeks to foster an environment of creativity and discovery aimed at finding solutions to children’s health problems. The Fund awards grants for research that offers substantial promise for meaningful advances in prevention and treatment of children’s diseases, particularly research that offers broad-based​ applications.
35. Foundation for Physical Therapy: The Foundation supports research projects in any patient care specialty.
36. International OCD Foundation: The IOCDF awards grants to investigators whose research focuses on the nature, causes and treatment of OCD and related disorders.
37. Susan G. Komen: Susan G. Komen sustains a strong commitment to supporting research that will identify and deliver cures for breast cancer.
38. American Association for Cancer Research: The AACR promotes and supports the highest quality cancer research. The AACR has been designated as an organization with an approved NCI* peer review and funding system.
39. American Thyroid Foundation: The ATA is committed to supporting research into better ways to diagnose and treat thyroid disease.
40. The Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research: The FAER provides research grant funding for anesthesiologists and anesthesiology trainees to gain additional training in basic science, clinical and translational, health services and education research.
41. The Alzheimer’s Association: The Alzheimer’s Association funds a wide variety of investigations by scientists at every stage of their careers. Each grant is designed to meet the needs of the field and to introduce fresh ideas in Alzheimer’s research.
42. The Arthritis National Research Foundation: The Arthritis National Research Foundation seeks to move arthritis research forward to find new treatments and to cure arthritis.
43. Hereditary Disease Foundation: The focus of the Hereditary Disease Foundation is on Huntington’s disease. Support will be for research projects that will contribute to identifying and understanding the basic defect in Huntington’s disease. Areas of interest include trinucleotide expansions, animal models, gene therapy, neurobiology and development of the basal ganglia, cell survival and death, and intercellular signaling in striatal neurons.
44. The Childrens Leukemia Research Association: The objective of the CLRA is to direct the funds of the Association into the most promising leukemia research projects, and where funding would not duplicate other funding sources.
45. The American Parkinson Disease Association: The APDA offers grants of up to $50,000 for Parkinson disease research to scientists affiliated with U.S. research institutions.
46. The Mary Kay Foundation: The Mary Kay Foundation offers grants to select doctors and medical scientists for research focusing on curing cancers that affect women.
47. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America: The CCFA is a leading funder of basic and clinical research in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. CCFA supports research that increases understanding of the etiology, pathogenesis, therapy, and prevention of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
48. The Avon Foundation for Women: Grants from the Avon Foundation go to develop new strategies to prevent breast cancer and to researching the science behind breast cancer to increase understanding.
49. The International Research Grants Program: The IRGP seeks to promote research that will have a major impact in developing knowledge of Parkinson’s disease. Effort is made to promote projects that have little hope of securing traditional funding.
50. American Gastroenterological Association: The AGA offers multiple grants for research advancing the science and practice of Gastroenterology.
51. Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants: The Wilson Ornithological Society Research Grants offers up to four grants of $1500 dollars for work in any area of ornithology.
52. The Obesity Society: The Obesity Society offers grants of up to $25,000 dollars to members doing research in areas related to obesity.
53. The Sjögren’s Syndrome Foundation: The SSF Research Grants Program places a high priority on both clinical and basic scientific research into the cause, prevention, detection, treatment, and cure of Sjögren’s.
54. The Melanoma Research Foundation: The MRF’s Research Grant Program emphasizes both basic and clinical research projects that explore innovative approaches to understanding melanoma and its treatment.
55. GRC - Run by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), the Grant Resource Center includes a database "customized to smaller institutions, and staff assistance," according to one user. A paid institutional membership is required for access.
56. IRIS - The Illinois Research Information Service is free for the University of Illinois (UI) community. Outside the UI system, a paid institutional subscription is needed for access.
57. SPIN - Run by InfoEd International, SPIN (the Sponsored Programs Information Network) claims to be the most widely used funding opportunity database in the world. An institutional subscription is required for access.
58. COS - Funding Opportunities. Community of Science claims the "largest, most comprehensive database of available funding," with 700 member institutions. Individuals can register free, but this won't get you access to the funding database.
59. ResearchResearch - Based in London, ResearchResearch provides an international option for people seeking research-funding programs. A paid subscription is required for access.

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

If you are using Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the installr package. Simply run the following code in Rgui:

install.packages("installr") # install 
setInternet2(TRUE)
installr::updateR() # updating R.

Running “updateR()” will detect if there is a new R version available, and if so it will download+install it (etc.). There is also a step by step tutorial (with screenshots) on how to upgrade R on Windows, using the installr package. If you only see the option to upgrade to an older version of R, then change your mirror or try again in a few hours (it usually take around 24 hours for all CRAN mirrors to get the latest version of R).

I try to keep the installr package updated and useful, so if you have any suggestions or remarks on the package – you are invited to open an issue in the github page.

More at http://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/groups/lawley-lab

• New ProSplign tool integrated with Genome Workbench (Tutorial, Video)
• New export function for BAM/cSRA coverage graphs (Tutorial)
• New export function for alignments GFF3 format ((Tutorial))
• Tree View: implemented new export mode based on selections (tutorial coming)
• Tree View: added support for distance based circular trees
• Tree View: new rooting mode (Midpoint Root) results in more balanced trees (Tutorial)
• Tree View: added possibility to right-click on an edge between two nodes and "Place Root at Middle of Branch" – to re-root at mid-branch (Tutorial)

More at http://www.navinlab.com/navinlab/home.html