Applications are invited on plain paper from eligible candidates along with biodata and copies of certificates in support of age, qualification and experience for the following position:

Particulars Description

1. Position & No. JRF (Junior Research Fellow) 01

2. Title of the Project Molecular modeling and docking studies on Deguelin and its derivatives with cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and anti-angiogenesis pathway proteins in cancer cell signaling pathway

3. Tenure 3 years

4. Investigator Dr. K. V.Swamy

5. Institute Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Institute, Tathawade, Pune 411033.

5. Qualifications/Eligibility

Essential: NET (National Eligibility Test) qualified M. Sc Bioinformatics/ M. Tech Bioinformatics/M. Sc Biotechnology/M. Tech Biotechnology or Graduate degree in Professional course with NET qualification or Post graduation degree in professional course

The following examinations conducted by various Central Government Departments/Agencies are considered as National Eligibility Test (NET).

1. CSIR-UGC-LS
2. GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering)
3. JAM (Joint Admission Test)
4. GPAT (Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test)
5. BET(Biotechnology Eligibility Test)
6. BINC(Bioinformatics National Consortium)
7. JEST( Joint Entrance Screening Test)
8. JGEEBILS(Joint Graduate Entrance Examination for Biology & Interdisciplinary Life Sciences)
9. NBHM Ph.D scholarship Screening Test
10. ICMR- JRF Entrance Examination
11. AICE (ICAR-All India competitive Examination )
(For all above examinations valid score considered at the time of interview)

Desirable: Knowledge and skills in Bioinformatics tools/ softwares

6. Monthly Emoluments Rs.25,000/ (As per DST-SERB rules)

7. Last date for submission of prescribed application 20/08/2016

Kindly send your applications to “Dr. K. V. Swamy, Asst.Professor, Dr. D. Y. Patil Biotechnology & Bioinformatics Institute, Survey No. 87/88, Mumbai-Pune Express Way, Tathawade, Pune - 411033, Maharashtra, India”. Highlight the envelope with “Application for post of JRF (Junior Research Fellow)”.

Note: No TA/DA will be paid for attending the interview.

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a) Scientist-B – UR (2 posts-Bioinformatics) on consolidated salary of Rs.48,000/- pm + HRA

b) Scientist C – UR (1 post -Bioinformatics) on consolidated salary of Rs. 51,000 pm+ HRA

c) Scientist B- UR (2 post-Statistics) on a consolidated salary of Rs.48,000/- pm +HRA

d) Computer Programmer 1 post UR & 1 post SC on a consolidated salary of Rs. 32,500/- pm

e) Research Assistant -UR 1 post on a consolidated salary of Rs. 31,000/- pm

More at https://projectjobs.icmr.org.in/sccbioinformatics/uploads/recruitment/Adv_BMI_24122020.pdf

Duration of the Project: Six Months from the date of appointment can be extended further for six months
Essential Qualification and Experience: 1st Class Masters Degree in Bioinformatics or Life Sciences equivalent degree from a recognized University with 4 years R&D experience in Bioinformatics or relevant subjects from recognized institutes.
OR
Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics or Life Sciences from recognized University.
M.Sc. degree obtained after a one year course will not be considered.
Experience: Research/teaching experience in Bioinformatics or relevant subjects form recognized Institute(s).

More at http://www.actrec.gov.in/data%20files/Vacancies/2016/AV-scin-stud-trainee-6-Sept-16.docx

Note: Experience in the following field required: Molecular cancer cytogenetic and genetic toxicology Molecular drug Designing and targeted therapy Cancer genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and next generation sequencing Therapeutic stem cell research and gene therapy Molecular cancer immunology and immunotherapy Molecular epidemiology Tumor endocrinology Translation research Ultra structural/tissue engg/development biology research Virus and cancer Molecular pathology No. of Posts: 11 (Eleven), (SC-1, OBC-3, UR-7)

Location: Kolkata (Calcutta) Salary: Rs.15600-39100 + Grade, Pay Rs.5400/-

For details kindly refer to the Employment News dated 24-30 September, 2016 and in the Institute’s Website: http://www.cnci.org.in

Last date for receipt of applications is 30 days from the date of notification in the Employment News. Director Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute 378, S.P.

Institute’s Website: http://www.cnci.org.in

You should begin by downloading the program from here. You will need to choose the link that matches your computing platform and then follow the instructions for opening the download package.

Once you have done this, you will be ready to try some example analyses on the test data that are provided with the download. The section on Examples shows how to use the most common IMPUTE2 functions. We suggest that you work through these examples and try to understand what the elements of each command are doing. If you don't understand something or would like to know if the program can perform a function that isn't listed, you can read our FAQ or submit a question to our mail list.

When you have learned the basic functionality of the program, you can use several features of this website to prepare your own analysis:

• Learn about best practices for imputation.
• Download reference data that you can use to impute genotypes in your study.
• Look through a complete list of program options.

Address of the bookmark: https://mathgen.stats.ox.ac.uk/impute/impute_v2.html

Research Associate :
Essential Qualification: Ph.D in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Life Science from a reocngised univeristy/institute
Pay: Rs.36000-/- + Admissible 10% HRA per month
Age: Below 35 years

Junior Research Fellow
Essential Qualification: M.Sc in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Life Science from a reocngised univeristy/institute
Pay: Rs.18000-/- + per month
Age: Below 35 years

Last date for receving application by mail or post is 08.11.2016

Company Info.
North-Eastern Hill University

Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF) Department of RDAP North-Eastern Hill University, Tura Campus Tura-794002, Meghalaya

More at http://www.nehu.ac.in/Advertisements/BIFTuraManpowerAdvt_25102016.pdf

A very nice book by Winston Chang for R ethusiast. The R code presented in these pages is the R code actually used to produce the Figures in the book. There will be differences compared to the code chunks shown in the text of the book, but in most cases the differences will be that these pages contain additional code to lay out multiple plots on a single "page".

The code presented for each figure is self-contained, i.e., all code required to produce the figure is included. This means that there is sometimes considerable overlap of code between several figures  In some cases, it may be necessary to install an add-on package from CRAN to get the code to run.

More books at http://www.e-reading.club/bookreader.php/137370/C486x_APPb.pdf

Randomness and probability are two differnet concepts: probaility is a measure (according to measure theory) which measures the randomness. Randomness is the object to be measured by probability. For example, probability is a mapping from randomness to the real number between 0 and 1. The similar examples are that the entropy measures the uncertanity; product of length and width measures the area of rectangle etc.

Please see “A mathematical theory of ability measure” by N. Kong ets for more examples to answer this question.

We present methods for the identification of protein-coding genes based on their patterns of nucleotide conservation across related species. We observed the pressure to conserve the reading frame of functional proteins and developed a test for gene identification with high sensitivity and specificity. We used this test to revisit the genome of S. cerevisiae, reducing the overall gene count by 500 genes (10% of previously annotated genes) and refining the gene structure of hundreds of genes. We present novel methods for the systematic de novo identification of regulatory motifs. The methods do not rely on previous knowledge of gene function and in that way differ from the current literature on computational motif discovery. Based on the genome-wide conservation patterns of known motifs, we developed three conservation criteria that we used to discover novel motifs. We used an enumeration approach to select strongly conserved motif cores, which we extended and collapsed into a small number of candidate regulatory motifs. These include most previously known regulatory motifs as well as several noteworthy novel motifs. The majority of discovered motifs are enriched in functionally related genes, allowing us to infer a candidate function for novel motifs.

Our results demonstrate the power of comparative genomics to further our understanding of any species. Our methods are validated by the extensive experimental knowledge in yeast, and will be invaluable in the study of complex genomes like that of human.

Address of the bookmark: http://web.mit.edu/manoli/www/publications/Kellis_JCB_04.pdf

Date: Nov 11th. 2016 Last Date: Nov 25th. 2016

PROJECT ID: 632

The following posts are urgently required to be filled for the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India funded project entitled "Computational Core for Plant Metabolomics" administrated by Prof Indira Ghosh, School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110 067

NB:For all Bioinformatics posts, preference will be given to candidates with a good knowledge of Python and/or R. Knowledge of JAVA will also get a special consideration.

RA / Research Associate (Metabolic engineering/Computational Biologist)

Salary: Rs. 36000/- + HRA
Vacancy: 1
Essential Qualifications: PhD in Bioinformatics /Mathematics/Computer Science with experience in analyzing high throughput omics-based data/ system Biology/ Analysis of Network Biology. Published paper in the field is a must to prove the experience.
Desired Skills: Prior experience in handling and guiding bioinformatics, metabolomics data, planning of new research area in metabolic driven network , managing the project portal, preparing and filing reports etc. Will be expected to communicate with user groups and coordinate with LIMS group in Hyderabad and the Cheminformatics group in Delhi.

RA / Research Associate (Chemo-informatics/Computational Biologist)

Salary: Rs. 36000/- + HRA
Vacancy: 1
Essential Qualifications: PhD in Bioinformatics/ computational biology/ Biophysics/Computer Science. Computational and Chemical structure related experience is a necessary qualification proven by paper published and program developed.
Desired Skills: Research experience in Chemical scaffold mapping, in silico Spectral analysis, Biological Database Designing & Integration is required. Individual is responsible to develop methods related to metabolite identification, Testing and refining and integrate LIMS with IIIT Hyderabad and will be expected to communicate with user groups.

Project SRF (Bioinformatics/Programming)

Salary: As per DBT rules
Vacancy: 1
Essential Qualifications: Masters/B Tech in Basic Sciences with at least 2yrs of research experience in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology related to Database /portal building & maintenance ,high throughput data handling and analysis etc. For M.Sc/B.Tec, Published paper in peer-reviewed Journal and for M.Tech, thesis submission in computational biology is a must.

More at http://www.jnu.ac.in/Career/currentjobs.htm