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The IISER Berhampur, an Institute of national importance, established through an act of Parliament is an autonomous organization under the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India, to promote quality education and cutting edge research in basic sciences and to provide a platform for the faculty to engage in high quality education, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Institute invites applications for faculty positions at the level of Assistant Professor (C) /Assistant Professor in the following disciplines:

1. Biological Sciences

2. Chemistry

3. Computer Sciences

4. Mathematics

5. Physics

Only hard copy of application in the prescribed format, via Speed Post should be sent to the Dean, Faculty Affairs, IISER Berhampur, Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Berhampur, Engineering School Road, Berhampur - 760 010, Ganjam District, Odisha, before 1700 hrs., December 30, 2016.

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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

Mauve has been developed with the idea that a multiple genome aligner should require only modest computational resources. It employs algorithmic techniques that scale well in the lengths of sequences being aligned. For example, a pair of Y. pestis genomes can be aligned in under a minute, while a group of 9 divergent Enterobacterial genomes can be aligned in a few hours. However, the current algorithm’s compute time (progressiveMauve) scales cubically in the number of genomes to align, making it unsuitable for datasets containing more than 50-100 bacterial genomes.

Address of the bookmark: http://darlinglab.org/mauve/mauve.html

Positions available

Applications were invited from for the following posts in an industry sponsored project. The project entitled "OsHK3b technology and Know How", valid for a period upto February, 2018.

Post 3: Senior Research Fellow (Computational Biologist / Metabolic engineering)

Salary: As per DBT rule.

Duration: All the above posts are purely temporary and liable to be terminated at any time without prior notice or ceased/withdrawn by the funding agency.

Age limit: The upper age limit for SRF shall be 32 years, which is relaxed upto 5 years in the case of candidates belonging to Schedule Castes/Schedule Tribes, Women, Physically Handicapped and OBC applicants.

Essential Qualifications: Masters/B Tech/Mtech 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.Tech, Published paper in peer-reviewed Journal and for M.Tech, thesis submission in computational biology is a must. Selection preference will be given to candidates with a good knowledge of Python and/or R. Knowledge of JAVA will also get a special consideration.

Desired Skills: Will be expected to manage ongoing research activities in the project, interact with Experimental group, manage the project data analysis, prepare file reports and associated project work etc. Familiarity with plant systems biology and genomics /metabolite resources related to plant metabolomics is desirable.

1. The post applied for must be clearly written on the Envelope containing the application
2. Applications received after last date shall not be entertained, School will not be responsible for any postal delay.
3. No application will be accepted via hand delivery or via e-mail. Please send printed & signed applications with detailed CV on or before 31st January, 2017 by post to the following address:

Prof. Ashwani Pareek
(Project Investigator)
Stress Physiology and Molecular Biology Laboratory (Room No-413),
School of Life Sciences,
Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India – 110067
Email: ashwanipareek@gmail.com

There are several pre-computed trees available for display, including the main Tree Of Life, described in Ciccarelli, et al., 2006. In addition to the precomputed trees, users can upload and display personal trees and data, using the 'Data upload' page or through a personal user account.

Address of the bookmark: http://itol.embl.de/

FSA brings the high accuracies previously available only for small-scale analyses of proteins or RNAs to large-scale problems such as aligning thousands of sequences or megabase-long sequences. FSA introduces several novel methods for constructing better alignments:

• FSA uses machine-learning techniques to estimate gap and substitution parameters on the fly for each set of input sequences. This "query-specific learning" alignment method makes FSA very robust: it can produce superior alignments of sets of homologous sequences which are subject to very different evolutionary constraints.
• FSA is capable of aligning hundreds or even thousands of sequences using a randomized inference algorithm to reduce the computational cost of multiple alignment. This randomized inference can be over ten times faster than a direct approach with little loss of accuracy.
• FSA can quickly align very long sequences using the "anchor annealing" technique for resolving anchors and projecting them with transitive anchoring. It then stitches together the alignment between the anchors using the methods described above.
• The included GUI, MAD (Multiple Alignment Display), can display the intermediate alignments produced by FSA, where each character is colored according to the probability that it is correctly aligned (see the picture and movie at the top of the page).

You can see more information on the FAQ. 

Address of the bookmark: http://fsa.sourceforge.net/

Basic usage:

Rscript Ideoplot.R --heatmap hm.bed --annotate annotations.bed --out ideogram.pdf
-or-
Rscript Ideoplot.R --annotate annotations.bed

Options
  --ideobed, i      A bed file of reference contig lengths/chromosome names
  --heatmap, -h     Fill chromosomes with normalized heatmap
                   (described below)
  --annotate, -a    Add character annotations.
  --out, -o         PDF output name.
  --stripes, -s     Specify a file containing the layout of the
                    annotations (description below)
  --bars, -b        Add track annotations
  --reference, -f   Either hg19, or hg38
  --topdown, r      Flag, when set, flips the orientation (P arms
                    drawn on top).

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/mchaisso/Ideoplot

The program is written in Java in order to provide a graphical user interface that is portable across a variety of computer platforms; indeed its name stands for "Local Alignments with Java". Currently it exists in two forms, a stand-alone application and a web-based applet, with slightly different capabilities.

Address of the bookmark: http://www.bx.psu.edu/~ratan/

Applications are invited for:

Junior Research Fellow, in a DBT funded project, is available in Translational Health Group, ICGEB, New Delhi

Qualifications:

Education: M.Sc. (preferably in Biotechnology, Life Sciences or Zoology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics). Candidates with hands on experience on GC-MS data acquisition and analysis will be given preference. Bioinformatics expertise required.

Fellowship: As per DBT guidelines.

Tenure: The position is purely on temporary basis with an initial tenure of six months and based on satisfactory performance may continue until the completion of the project.

Closing date for applications: 04/03/2017

Please send a "TWO PAGE" CV by email to: th.icgeb@gmail.com on or before the last date.

Research Associate, in a DBT funded project, is available in Translational Health Group, ICGEB, New Delhi

Qualifications:

Education: Ph.D. (in Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Bioinformatics). Candidates with hands on experience on GC-MS data acquisition and analysis will be given preference.

Fellowship: As per DBT guidelines.

Tenure: The position is purely on temporary basis with an initial tenure of six months and based on satisfactory performance may continue until the completion of the project.

Closing date for applications: 04/03/2017

Please send a "TWO PAGE" CV by email to: th.icgeb@gmail.com on or before the last date.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/hugheslab/snpgenie