Dear colleagues: EMDB, the Electron Microscopy Data Bank at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, England, has a staff position opening for a
Scientific Software Engineer (Image Databases) We are looking for someone with very good software engineering skills (target platform is GNU/Linux and Mac OSX, primary languages Java and Python, focus on web-based interfaces and distributed applications/grids/clouds), a background in image analysis/bioimage informatics, structural biology, or (bio-)physics, a thorough grasp of mathematical and statistical algorithms, and a track record of developing and maintaining scientific software. The post is funded by BBSRC in a joint project with OME, the Open Microscopy Environment (www.openmicroscopy.org) group at the University of Dundee. EMDB is operated jointly with Rutgers University, New Jersey, and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, under NIH funding, so there will be plenty of opportunity for international collaboration. EMDB is part of the PDBe team at EBI. Example topics to work on would be to integrate electron microscopy data sets into OME, provide better tools for the visualization and analysis of large complex data sets, develop tools for statistical assessment of image quality, and figure out how to use the emerging grid/cloud computing infrastructures for storage and computation of EMDB data. More information about EMDB is at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb Feel free to contact me directly if you want to know more. The post is an EMBL staff position with an initial contract for three years. Details are in the job posting at http://www.embl.de/aboutus/jobs/jobs_embl_ebi_hinxton/2009/09_049_ebi Please not that applications should be sent to <applicati...@ebi.ac.uk> Thanks! -Christoph -- | Dr Christoph Best <b...@ebi.ac.uk> http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~best | Project Leader Electron Microscopy Data Bank, PDB Europe | European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK +44-1223-492649
