Bio Saga Blog - A Chronicle of Life Sciences & Informatics

Courtesy Bioclues Are you a skilled bioinformatician? Do you have experience with analysis and integration  of large data sets? Would you like to work with leading experts and constantly improve  your skills? Then you may be Intomics’ next bioinformatician. We are expanding our bioinformatics team and are seeking a skilled bioinformatician to  help the team provide innovative solutions for our clients in the pharmaceutical industry.  You will play an important role in implementing data mining strategies for projects in  areas such as target identification, biomarker identification, disease systems biology, and  translation research. Our preferred candidate has the following profile: Bioinformatics or computational biology background Experience with large-scale data mining Strong experience with programming (e.g.  Perl,  Python,  Java),  databases (e.g.  MySQL, PostgreSQL), and Unix Excellent communication skills and the abi...

Linguamatics is currently seeking a talented post graduate with experience of natural language processing to work on leading edge text mining products. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining resources for domain specific adaptation of real-time semantic search software based on Natural Language Processing. Working closely with application scientists and the development team, you will ensure that the combination of software and resources satisfies customer requirements. This will include developing linguistic patterns, and programs to transform domain specific terminologies into common formats and keep them up-to-date. You will be working on life science applications, and some knowledge of the Pharmaceutical or Healthcare industry would be useful.In addition to resource and application development, you will be expected to contribute to ongoing UK or EU funded research projects as part of the research and resource development team. You will have strong communication ski...

CambridgeSoft's Business Partner in Hyderabad, India is hiring for multiple positions. Appropriate candidates, with a chemistry or biochemistry background, could apply. The following is a list of available positions: Lead Developer - ChemDraw product on a Java platform (Hyderabad, India) Developer - JAVA DEVELOPERS (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Desktop - ChemBio3D (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - Network Communication and Distributed Computing (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - User Interface (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - Numerical Methods (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - Inventory (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - (C++) (Hyderabad India) Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook Support Analyst (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Desktop - ChemDraw (Hyderabad, India) Lead Developer - Enterprise - E-Notebook (Hyderabad, India) Developer - Enterprise - Database Specialist (...

Job Title:  Java Developer - Bioinformatics Salary:  35000-45000 Per Annum Excellent benefits Location:  Surrey Description:  Java Developer, Permanent, Guildford, £35-45k + excellent benefits and package Is a leading software solutions company for the pharmaceutical industry. A new opportunity has become available for a Java Developer with Bioinformatics to join a dedicated team to help develop software solutions to accelerate the drug discovery process. Key responsibilities include: Designing and implementing new products; maintenance work on existing products; mentoring other developers; helping to evangelize technology and component use throughout the company. The successful candidate will be a Java developer with a strong understanding of Bioinformatics. The ideal candidate will also have a working knowledge of J2EE/ JBOSS, Java Swing, JavaScript libraries and SQL but this is a nice to have. Please contact Tom Hildreth for immediate consideration and...

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/82 Abstract Background The performance of different programming languages has previously been benchmarked using abstract mathematical algorithms, but not using standard bioinformatics algorithms. We compared the memory usage and speed of execution for three standard bioinformatics methods, implemented in programs using one of six different programming languages. Programs for the Sellers algorithm, the Neighbor-Joining tree construction algorithm and an algorithm for parsing BLAST file outputs were implemented in C, C++, C#, Java, Perl and Python. Results Implementations in C and C++ were fastest and used the least memory. Programs in these languages generally contained more lines of code. Java and C# appeared to be a compromise between the flexibility of Perl and Python and the fast performance of C and C++. The relative performance of the tested languages d...

Pfizer UK-Kent-Sandwich Computational Biologist Computational Sciences are integral to Pfizer’s strategy to accelerate the discovery of important new medicines. This is your opportunity to join a dynamic, innovative team, focusing on the development and use of novel computational methods and algorithms to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of drug discovery. We are looking for a Computational Biologist with skills in working with genomics data, developing novel algorithms and generating new biological hypotheses to join our Computational Sciences Center of Emphasis in Sandwich, UK. Specific areas of interest include: • Identification of new datasets and data mining techniques relevant to drug discovery • Developing and testing novel methods and algorithms, working with academic collaborators where opportunities arise • Building and testing prototype systems (both interfaces and algorithm libraries) • Working with scientists to apply tools to every day problems • Awarded or...

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst Requirements: - PhD or equivalent experience in life science / biology. - 4+ years demonstrated success in working in the life sciences, preferably in an industry research settings. -In-depth understanding, analysis and processing of data from various post genomic technologies and their applications. - In-depth knowledge in gene expression (genotyping, chromosomal copy number, SNPs, gene signatures) and sequencing -Wide understanding of commercially available bioinformatics/clinical genomics tools and databases -Ability to handle complex / multi projects in rapidly changing environment. - Good knowledge on Perl, C / java and any relational databases. Responsibilities: - Analyzing and documenting project requirements. -Developing biocomputing algorithms for tools development and data analysis. -Performing biological analysis on data from various domains like gene expression, sequencing , molecular lab. -Co-ordination with sales team on projects to understan...