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Ensembl Developer - Team 119 – Team: 80383

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomic research, with an expanding scientific programme dedicated to understanding gene function in health & disease.

We are seeking a highly motivated bioinformatics developer to produce and develop methods for the production of automatic gene annotation.

The successful candidate will be expected to run the Ensembl genome annotation system and extend and develop it to cover newly sequenced genomes, to handle new data types and improve the quality of the annotation, with the goal of helping to keep Ensembl at the forefront of automatic genome annotation production. All members of the team take part in the production of each new annotation release, with each being responsible for taking particular genomes from the raw unannotated assembly to a fully annotated genome ready for display in Ensembl. Members of the team are involved in both internal and external collaborations.

Essential Skills
You will be a bioinformatician with at least a Master's level qualification in bioinformatics plus practical experience in the field. You must have good working knowledge of a programming language such as Perl, Python, Java or C. UNIX experience and familiarity with relational databases are essential. You will have working knowledge and understanding of commonly used bioinformatics programs and algorithms, such as BLAST. You should have demonstrable problem solving skills, and good communication skills.


Ideal Skills
Experience of object oriented programming in Perl would be desirable, as would experience scripting using the Ensembl API. Experience of genome scale data analysis would be highly desirable. A working knowledge of batch queuing systems, in particular lsf would also be desirable.

Other information
Interpreting vertebrate genome sequence is one of the most challenging scientific information problems for this century. The Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org) is the world-wide leader in this task. Ensembl is a joint project between the EBI and the Sanger Institute, funded by the Wellcome Trust. We have one of the world's largest dedicated computer resources for genomic analysis. We provide automatic annotation on over 45 vertebrate genomes, and this number continues to grow rapidly. The data we produce is used by thousands of scientists worldwide to help in their research.

Benefits
The Institute has excellent purpose built facilities on the Genome Campus, Hinxton on the outskirts of Cambridge. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits including a final salary pension scheme and excellent on-site facilities. Further details can be found on our website https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk,

To submit your CV and apply for this job please go to https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk, to register and apply on line.

Salary from £27,450pa dependent on
experience.

Closing date: 22nd November 2009.