Job Description

The Global Trait Discovery Informatics (GTDI) group located at the DuPont Knowledge Centre (DKC), Hyderabad, India is currently seeking applications for a highly motivated computational biologist. The GTDI group contributes to research programs in plant biotechnology at the DKC as well as across research centers located in DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa and at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware.

We are looking for candidates who have experience in analysis of high-throughput -omics datasets. The researcher will be primarily responsible for analyzing diverse -omics datatypes, such as transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics and actively contribute towards building streamlined solutions.

The candidate will be part of a diverse team of experimental biologists, computational biologists and software developers. A critical aspect of this position involves working with global teams across multiple locations and will require effective project coordination and communication skills. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates with strong data driven skills, who want to work at the interface of computational and experimental biology and contribute towards scientific discovery.

Responsibilities

·Integrate and analyze multiple datatypes in the context of experimental observations with a goal towards formulating testable hypothesis.

·Understanding the research questions from experimental biologists and formulate relevant in silico analyses.

·Establish and implement systematic analysis workflows starting from processing of raw data to biological interpretation.

·Critically analyze a wide variety of experimental data with a view to solving the underlying research questions.

·Identify and generate datasets for scientific testing and evaluation of algorithms.

Qualifications

PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, population genetics, complex systems, computer sciences or any relevant physical or mathematical sciences, with experience in analyzing diverse -omics datasets.

Job Qualifications

Qualifications

PhD in computational biology, bioinformatics, population genetics, complex systems, computer sciences or any relevant physical or mathematical sciences, with experience in analyzing diverse -omics datasets.

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• Filters SNVs from any variant caller to remove false positives
• Calculates metrics based on BAM files and provides filtering not possible with other tools
• Fully user-configurable filtering (including which filters to use and their thresholds)
• Option to use filters identical to ICGC recommendations

FiNGS provides researchers with a tool to reproducibly filter somatic variants that is simple to both deploy and use, with filters and thresholds that are fully configurable by the user. It ingests and emits standard variant call format (VCF) files and will slot into existing sequencing pipelines. It allows users to develop and implement their own filtering strategies and simple sharing of these with others.

FiNGS reliably improves upon the precision of default variant caller outputs and performs better than other tools designed for the same task.

Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/cpwardell/FiNGS

Adv. No. URDIP/ 15/2015

Opportunity for young Bioinformatics Professionals to make a career in the area of Intellectual Property

CSIR has set up a Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (CSIRURDIP) at Pune to work in the area of scientific informatics. One of the major focus areas of research work at CSIR-URDIP is PATENT INFORMATICS. With the increasing applications of Bioinformatics in the areas of life sciences industry such as Agriculture and Health Care (Diagnostics and Drugs), the output of research in these area is being protected by different forms of Intellectual Property rights. Realizing the importance of IP in the Bioinformatics field, Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has sanctioned a project on “Development, Facilitation and Harvesting of Bioinformatics related Intellectual Property” at CSIR-URDIP.

The project will involve application of Patent Informatics tools and techniques to Bioinformatics (including creation of patent landscapes, preparation of techno-legal reports of patentability, freedom to operate studies) to help protect IPRs and develop and conduct training programmes on IPRs related to Bioinformatics.

CSIR-URDIP invites applications from young Bioinformatics professionals to work on this emerging area which offers challenging opportunities and attractive career possibilities in future.

Position I: Research Associate

No of Positions: One

Consolidated amount Payable: = Rs 26,400.00

Qualification: PhD in Bioinformatics. In exceptional cases, candidature of M. Tech. candidates with First class in Bioinformatics with three years of relevant work experience will also be considered.

Job requirement: The prospective candidate will be expected to identify patents/scientific literature in field of Bioinformatics, evaluate them Vis a Vis other patents in fields and come up landscape / FTO / Patentability reports.

Age Limit: 35 years.

The candidates meeting the above criteria may appear for walk in interview at their cost on Monday 13th July 2015 at 02:00 p.m. with the CV and supporting documents (original plus copies) at the following address: CSIR Unit or Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP), "Tapovan" S.No. 113 & 114, Near NCL Colony Baner Side Gate, NCL Estate, Pashan Road, Pune-411008, Maharashtra, India

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Variant calling and/or genotyping

• DiscoSNP++ and discoSnpRAD: Reference-free small variant discovery (SNPs and indels)
• MindTheGap: Detection and assembly of large insertion variants
• TakeABreak: reference-free inversion discovery tool
• SVJedi: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data
• SVJedi-graph: Structural Variant genotyper with long read data using a variation graph

Sequence assembly

• MinYS: reference-guided genome assembly in metagenomics data
• MTG-link: local assembly tool for linked-read data
• Minia: De novo short read assembler
• de-novo pipeline: de-novo assembly pipeline (error correction / contigs / scaffolding) for genomes and meta-genomes
• Mapsembler2: Targeted assembly (not maintained)

Managing k-mers & indexation

• findere: simple strategy for speeding up queries and for reducing false positive calls from any Approximate Membership Query data structure.
  • fimpera extends findere adding the abundance information.
• kmtricks: modular tool suite for counting kmers, and constructing Bloom filters or kmer matrices, for large collections of sequencing data.
• kmindex is a tool for indexing and querying sequencing samples. It is built on top of kmtricks.
• back to sequences: Find sequences (reads, unitigs, genes) related to a set of kmers in large datasets, in a matter of seconds.
• Backpack Quotient Filter: k-mer indexing data structure with abundance
• short read connector: Detect similar reads from potentially large read set
• DSK: Count K-mer in sequences

Pangenome graph manipulation

• Pancat: Pangenome Comparison and Analysis Toolkit
• GFAGraphs: a Python library to handle pangenome graph files in GFA format.

Comparative metagenomics with k-mers

• Simka and SimkaMin: Comparative metagenomics for large-scale datasets
• Comparead & Commet: comparison of metagenomic datasets

Species and bacterial strains identification

• ORI: software using long nanopore reads to identify bacteria present in a sample at the strain level
• StrainFLAIR: STRAIN-level proFiLing using vArIation gRaph

General-purpose sequencing data manipulation

• GASSST: long read mapper
• Leon: short read compressor (now included in GATB-core)
• Bloocoo: short read corrector
• BCALM: Construct compacted de Bruijn graphs (unitigs)

 Protein Structure

• A_Purva: Contact Map Overlap solver
• MD-Jeep: Distance Geometry solver
• CSA: Comparative Structural Alignment

Workflow

• SLICEE: parallel execution of bioinformatics workflows

Comparative Genomics

• CASSIS: detection of rearrangement breakpoints
• PLAST: intensive bank-to-bank sequence comparison
• DRJBreakpointFinder: detection and precise localization of excision sites in proviral segments

Detail Of Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) Project Fellow Recruitment:

No.of Posts: 02

Qualification : 1st Class B. Tech. in Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology Or M.Sc. in Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology with 55% marks OR M.Tech. in Bioinformatics/ Computational Biology with 55% marks.

Age : 28 years as on 10.06.2015

Pay Scale: Rs.12,000/- P.M/Rs.14,000/- P.M.

Age : 35 years,(Up to 40 years for members of SC/STs).

Selection Procedure For Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT) – Project Fellow Post:

Written Test on 10/06/2015.

Shortlisted candidates will undertake face to face interview.

Dates are yet to be announced for the final selection

Walkin Procedure For Project Fellow vacancy in Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology (IHBT):

Eligible candidates may appear for Walk-in-Interview on Date : 10.06.2015, Time 9:00 A.M. Venue : CSIR- IHBT Palampur (H.P.) alongwith an application on prescribed format. Candidates must also bring with them original certificates of testimonials at the time of the appearing for interview failing which he/she will not be allowed to appear for interview.

Important Dates To Remember :
Walk in date for this job : 10/06/2015

• Whole-genome sequencing
• Whole-exome sequencing
• RNA-seq (speical mode available)
• ChIP-seq

Address of the bookmark: http://qualimap.bioinfo.cipf.es/

(Established under Central Universities Act, 2009)

BIT Campus, PO: B.V. College,

Patna – 800 014 (Bihar)

Employment Notice No. CUSB / 27 / Faculty / 2015

Appointment for Faculty Positions Applications in the prescribed form are invited from the eligible candidates for the following posts shown against the subjects to be filled up on regular/contract/re-employment after superannuation basis:

1 Bioinformatics - 03 Posts

2 Biotechnology – 02 Posts

12 Life Science – 04 Posts

The duly filled in application form, complete in all respect along with fee must be sent only by Speed post/Registered post/Courier to The Registrar, Central University of South Bihar, BIT Campus, P.O. : B.V. College, Patna-800014.

Last Date of Receiving Application 10th August, 2015

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Address of the bookmark: https://github.com/fenderglass/Flye

Jr Research Fellow Posts At Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology
Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) invites applications to recruit on vacant posts of Junior Research Fellow (JRF). Applications against these Government Jobs can be submitted on or before 15 August 2015.

Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Vacancy 2015 Details
Name of the post – Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
Total vacancies –

Age Limit: Below 28 years as on 15-08-2015.

Qualification(s): Masters Degree in Life Sciences/Biotechnology/Bioinformatics.

How to Apply: Duly filled-in applications in prescribed application format along with copies of required documents should be reach to: Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology Thycaud PO, Poojappura, Thiruvananthapuram – 695014, Kerala.

More at http://rgcb.res.in/temporary-position-available-10/

https://bioinformatics-core-shared-training.github.io/cruk-summer-school-2017/Day1/Session4-seqIntro.html

Address of the bookmark: https://bioinformatics-core-shared-training.github.io/cruk-summer-school-2017/Day1/Session4-seqIntro.html