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Walk-in-Interview

Walk-in-interview will be held on October 5, 2013 at 10:00 A.M. at IASRI, New Delhi for a project “A New Distributed Computing Framework for Data Mining” funded by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India for the following posts. The appointment will be on contractual basis upto 14th October, 2015 or till the termination of the project whichever is earlier and the incumbent shall not have any claim for regular appointment under ICAR.

Research Associate

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent or

Post-Graduation in Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics/ Computer Science/ Computer Application or equivalent with 1st Division and at least two years of research experience

 Knowledge of Statistical Analysis /Bioinformatics tools for computational genomics.

 Knowledge of R/Perl programming language

Research Associate

Ph.D. in Computer Science/ Computer Application / Bioinformatics/ Agricultural
Statistics/ Statistics or equivalent or

Post-Graduation in Computer Science/ Computer Application /Bioinformatics/ Agricultural Statistics/ Statistics or equivalent with 1st Division and at least two years of research experience

 Expertise in Java programming.
 Knowledge of system administration and networking under Linux environment.
 Knowledge of parallel programming and cluster computing.

Emoluments for Research Associate: Consolidated Rs:24000/- per month + HRA (for Ph.D. Degree holders) and Rs:23000/- per month + HRA (for Master’s Degree holders)

Age Limit: Age should be not more than 40 years (5 years relaxation for SC/ST/women candidates and 3 years for OBC candidates as on date of interview).

Interested candidates are requested to appear for Walk-in-Interview on the date and time as specified above in Room No. 106, Training Cum Administrative Block of the Institute along with their application giving bio-data with attested copies of certificates, degrees, testimonials, etc. and one passport size photograph.

Original certificates/ Degrees are needed to be produced at the time of interview.

No T.A. /D.A. will be paid for appearing in the interview.

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Lab page @ http://krishna.gs.washington.edu/index.html

(A) Regulatory System Analysis with respect to microRNAs

(B) Computational Epigenomics & Regulomics:

(C) Computational issues with Next Generation Sequencing:

Department of Biotechnology,
Institute of Himalyan Bioresources Technology
CSIR, Palampur(Himachal Pradesh), India.
Email: ravishihbt.res.in; ravish9gmail.com

More @ http://scbb.ihbt.res.in/SCBB_dept/Lab_Member.php

More @ http://www.bioinf.manchester.ac.uk/dbbrowser/index.php

No. ACTREC/Advt./ 72 /2013

WALK IN INTERVIEW

1. JRF*
Genome-wide RNAi screen with human pooled tyrosine kinase shRNA libraries in head and neck squamous call carcinoma (HNSCC) cell lines
DBT A/C No. 3071, Dr. Amit Dutt

2. JRF
IRB Project ACTREC Funds
Dr. Amit Dutt

3. RA
Defining the cancer genome of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) with SNP arrays and next generation sequencing technology
A/C No. 2895, Dr. Amit Dutt

Duration of the Project: One year from the date of appointment, or as and when project terminates.

Consolidated Salary: RA : Rs. 40,000/- p.m.
JRF* (DBT): Rs. 20,800/- p.m.
JRF: Rs. 16,000/- p.m.
Date & Time: 6th November, 2013, at 10.00 a.m.

Venue: Conference Room

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

RA: The ideal applicant should have a PhD in a relevant field. He/she should have a strong computational biology background, with demonstrated experience in coding using Perl, Python, Java or C++. He/she should be familiar with working in unix enviromnent, devising computational algorithms for data analysis, statistical data analysis in R and matlab and database programming using MySQL. Hands on experience in analyzing high throughput data would be an added advantage.

JRF* (DBT project): M.Sc. in Life Sciences or M.Tech in Biotechnology with good academic record (Minimum of 60% aggregate). Valid UGC-CSIR/DBT/ICMR JRF qualification and laboratory experience in molecular biology. Previous experience in molecular biology and animal tissue culture with high throughput platforms and ability to work with a large team would be desirable.

JRF (ACTREC project): M.Sc. in Life Sciences or M.Tech in Biotechnology with good academic record (Minimum of 60% aggregate). Minimum 2 yrs experience in molecular biology and animal tissue culture with high throughput platforms and ability to work with a large team is essential.

*M.Sc. degree obtained after a one year course will not be considered.

Candidates fulfilling above requirements should send their application by e-mail to
‘careers.duttlab@gmail.com. in the format given below so as to reach on or before
4th November, 2013.

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./vcf2fq.pl -f <input.fasta> <all-site.vcf> > <output.fastq>

https://github.com/gringer/bioinfscripts/blob/master/vcf2fq.pl

https://github.com/lh3/samtools/blob/master/bcftools/vcfutils.pl