Senior Manager (Bioinformatics Operations)
No. of posts: 01 (General)
Pay Scale: PB-3 15600-39100 + Grade Pay Rs.6600/-
Min. Qualification: PhD in Bioinformatics, , Life Sciences or Computer Science applied to biological questions.
A Min. 5 years of experience
Age limit: 40 years as on August 01, 2016

More at http://www.rgcb.res.in/positions.php

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

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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.

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

GoJS offers many advanced features for user interactivity such as drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, in-place text editing, tooltips, context menus, automatic layouts, templates, data binding and models, transactional state and undo management, palettes, overviews, event handlers, commands, and an extensible tool system for custom operations.

GoJS is pure JavaScript, so users get interactivity without requiring round-trips to servers and without plugins. GoJS normally runs completely in the browser, rendering to an HTML5 Canvas element or SVG without any server-side requirements. GoJS does not depend on any JavaScript libraries or frameworks, so it should work with any HTML or JavaScript framework or with no framework at all.          

More at http://gojs.net/latest/index.html

Address of the bookmark: http://gojs.net/latest/index.html

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SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION: Genomics of Adaptation [S16] Model organisms for life-history research are mainly studied in the lab where functional genetics is assessable. In general, however, knowledge about their eco-evolutionary dynamics, such as biotic interactions, is rare. By contrast, in organisms for which the ecology and adaptation strategies in the field are well known, we typically lack the appropriate genetic tools to investigate functionality. Advances in genomics and statistics as well as investments in evolutionary model organisms are now providing access to putatively adaptive genome-wide variation within species from across the tree of life. In this symposium, we focus on integrating life-history biology, genetics and evolutionary ecology in the genomics era.

We wish to (1) highlight the role of genetic architecture of complex traits, such as adaptations to biotic interactions or life-history traits; (2) contrast this to morphological traits which are generally thought to have a less complex genetic architecture; and (3) discuss the opportunities and drawbacks of specific model systems.

INVITED SPEAKERS: Josephine Pemberton, University of Cambridge (http://bit.ly/2hJWytJ ) Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota (http://bit.ly/2hK7HuS )

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The deadline for abstract submission is January 10, 2017. For more information and to submit abstracts online, please visit: http://bit.ly/2fBXlvN We look forward to an exciting symposium and seeing you all in Groningen! Sincerely, Ben Blackman, UC Berkeley Maaike de Jong, University of Bristol Bart Pannebakker, Wageningen University Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley Jelle Zandveld, Wageningen University