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Postdoctoral Associate - Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center

Sat, 10 Aug 2013 18:38:38 -0500

The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke University Medical Center is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate for a one year appointment to work on several high-dimensional research projects. The specific goals of the project are to identify genes or molecular markers that are predictive of clinical outcomes in renal and prostate cancer.

Candidates must have: a PhD degree in statistics, biostatistics or bioinformatics, extensive experience in analyzing high-dimensional data (microarray, SNP, CNVs) and of validation approaches. In addition, experience in penalized regression methods, data base manipulation; and strong programming skills in order to conduct Monte Carlo studies and applications (R). Candidate must have excellent communication skills (verbal, written and presentation), a strong proficiency in Linux system.

This position is available immediately and will be filled as soon as possible. Appointment could be extended beyond the first year based on additional funding.

For more information about the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, please visit our website: http://www.biostat.duke.edu.

For more info: http://biostat.duke.edu/sites/biostat.duke.edu/files/Halabi%20-%20Postdoc%20Job%20Posting%202013%20updated.pdf

Duke University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Uni Computing Bergen Norway

Tue, 03 Sep 2013 18:40:50 -0500

Info on Uni Computing (Webpage: http://www.bccs.uni.no/) :

Uni Computing (formerly Uni BCCS) is a department of Uni Research, affiliated with the University of Bergen.

5 groups in this lab works on computational resources, methods, algorithms, and software.

Following two bioinformatics groups are:

The Computational Biology Unit (CBU) provides education and research in bioinformatics focused on functional genomics.

The Computational Ecology Unit (CEU) is basically deal with population fluctuations, behavioural patterns and the ways life cycles emerge.

What are the difference between BioRuby and BioGem?

Neel — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 09:27:57 -0500

I came across two diferent but matching term BioRuby and BioGem. What are the difference between these two term? If both are using same Ruby language for development then why did they develope two different biological packages.

The Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics (Janet Kelso)

Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:57:45 -0500

The focus of this group is to use computational approaches to gain an insight into genome evolution in primates.

PNAS papers:
http://www.pnas.org/search?author1=Janet+Kelso&sortspec=date&submit=Submit

Jobs:
http://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/bioinformatics/jobs.html

Contact:
Kelso Group
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Germany
Email: kelso@eva.mpg.de

Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Making Sense out of Massive Data

Thu, 29 Aug 2013 08:32:26 -0500

Computational Biology in the 21st Century: Making Sense out of Massive Data Air date: Wednesday, February 01, 2012, 3:00:00 PM Category: Wednesday Afternoon Lectures Description: The last two decades have seen an exponential increase in genomic and biomedical data, which will soon outstrip advances in computing power to perform current methods of analysis. Extracting new science from these massive datasets will require not only faster computers; it will require smarter algorithms. We show how ideas from cutting-edge algorithms, including spectral graph theory and modern data structures, can be used to attack challenges in sequencing, medical genomics and biological networks. The NIH Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. Author: Dr. Bonnie Berger Runtime: 00:58:06 Permanent link: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?17563

Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes

Sat, 09 Nov 2013 20:19:02 -0600

The German-Canadian international research training group

"Computational Methods for the Analysis of the Diversity and Dynamics of Genomes"

has currently open positions for graduate students, to study at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada) and
Bielefeld University (Germany), starting in the fall 2014.

This international graduate program is a close cooperation of:

Bielefeld University, Germany: Graduate progam "DiDy"
Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada: Graduate program "MADD-Gen"

The available positions include six PhD positions at Bielefeld University, as well as PhD and MSc positions at SFU.

Application deadline: December 31st, 2013
Webpage: http://wiki.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/didy/Announcement

BINC (BioInformatics National Certification) Website address

Kamalakshi Mukherjee — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:40:22 -0500

BINC (BioInformatics National Certification) is an initiative of Department of Biotechnology(DBT), Government Of India in coordination with Bioinformatics Center, University of Pune. The objective of the examination is to recognize trained manpower in the area of Bioinformatics. Currently, various Indian universities, Government and private institutions are involved in imparting courses in Bioinformatics in India.

Foreign nationals intending to have certification are eligible to appear for BINC examination.
Minimum qualification includes a degree from a recognized university/institute in the areas listed in FAQ.
Formal training in the area of Bioinformatics is not a prerequisite.
Note that the foreign students will only be certified by DBT and are not eligible for the cash award as well as junior research fellowship.

Address of the bookmark: http://binc.scisjnu.ernet.in/

Bioinformatics job in Genotypic Tech, India

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 08:20:54 -0500

Genotypic Technology, the first Genomics Company of India is poised to become the next generation life sciences company. We are hiring professionals for our high end Genomics Labs (Molecular Biology/ Microarray/NGS) and Bioinformatics groups.

Apply to Genotypic Technology if you are a PhD in Life Sciences/ Molecular Biology/ Biotechnology/ Human Genetics/ Bioinformatics with minimum 4-5 years post doctoral experience as well as publications in peer reviewed journals.

Source: http://www.genotypic.co.in/Careers/2/Current-Openings.aspx

Golden Rules of Bioinformatics

Jitendra Narayan — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:11:33 -0500

All constant are variable.
Copy and paste is a genetic error.
First solve the problem, then write the code.
No matter what goes wrong, it will probably look right.
Any simple problem can be insoluble if enough metting are held to discuss it. :P
Stastics is a systematic method of comming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Bug is a undocumented feature in programming languages.
Good biological programmer goes on summer holiday with raincoat. [because see 1]
Thanks god Google know python is not a python and multiplication and division are the same thing.
Don' be clever, complex biology will trick you.

List of bioinformatics packages for NGS analysis !

Rahul Nayak — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 00:28:51 -0500

Package suites gather software packages and installation tools for specific languages or platforms. We have some for bioinformatics software.

Bioconductor – A plethora of tools for analysis and comprehension of high-throughput genomic data, including 1500+ software packages. [ paper-2004 | web ]
Biopython – Freely available tools for biological computing in Python, with included cookbook, packaging and thorough documentation. Part of the Open Bioinformatics Foundation. Contains the very useful Entrez package for API access to the NCBI databases. [ paper-2009 | web ]
Bioconda – A channel for the conda package manager specializing in bioinformatics software. Includes a repository with 3000+ ready-to-install (with conda install) bioinformatics packages. [ paper-2018 | web ]
BioJulia – Bioinformatics and computational biology infastructure for the Julia programming language. [ web ]
Rust-Bio – Rust implementations of algorithms and data structures useful for bioinformatics. [ paper-2016 ]
SeqAn – The modern C++ library for sequence analysis.