Bioinformatics scientist at European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Hinxton, England, United Kingdom -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

13 May, 25

Salary

3229.0

Posted On

13 Feb, 25

Experience

0 year(s) or above

Remote Job

No

Telecommute

No

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Good communication skills

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

Your role
In your role as a Bioinformatics Scientist, your main responsibility will be architecting and developing robust software modules and scalable workflows for efficient data release and management of the ever-growing volume of scientific information.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop new software and data production pipelines for the UniProt database
  • Maintain and optimise production pipeline scripts and software modules
  • Organise, execute, monitor, and troubleshoot production procedures on daily basis and ensure coordination with other staff members
  • Assess new technologies and methods to improve database production environment
  • Undertake data collection, preprocessing, analysis, and present information using data visualization techniques
  • Evaluate and propose solutions to biological challenges within data production
  • Work closely with external scientists to conduct research, develop novel analysis pipelines to improve UniProt data quality
  • Communicate and coordinate production work with UniProt Consortium members, software developers, and biologists involved in the database release cycle

The EBI is a world-leading bioinformatics centre providing biological data to the scientific community, with expertise in data storage, analysis and representation. The UniProt team provides a central resource on protein information and a solid set of services and computational analysis of protein data.
UniProt is produced by the UniProt Consortium – a collaboration between the EBI, the Protein Information Resource (PIR) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).

You have

  • A degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Life Sciences or a related discipline
  • At least 2 years professional software development experience in Python and/or Java
  • Strong experience in Python or Java programming
  • Experience developing computational pipelines using workflow systems like Nextflow
  • Experience with SQL and relational database design principles, and Unix shell scripting
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with an ability to understand, debug and fix both scientific data and production code
  • Familiar with source code management systems e.g. GIT
  • Understanding of good coding practices and approaches (OOP, IoC, automated testing, clean code principles, code review)
  • Good communication skills
  • English language skills are essential
  • Ideally, (s)he has already gained experience in a multilingual working environment
  • Ability to work as part of a team of people with a range of skills and a diversity of backgrounds
  • Enjoy working in an international environment

You may also have

  • Good understanding of biological data
  • Previous experience working with data centres/computing clusters (e.g. LSF or SLURM)

Contract length: 3 years
Salary: Grade 5 (monthly salary starting at £3,229 after tax but excl. pension & insurances) + other paid benefits based on personal circumstances
Why join us
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Responsibilities
  • Design and develop new software and data production pipelines for the UniProt database
  • Maintain and optimise production pipeline scripts and software modules
  • Organise, execute, monitor, and troubleshoot production procedures on daily basis and ensure coordination with other staff members
  • Assess new technologies and methods to improve database production environment
  • Undertake data collection, preprocessing, analysis, and present information using data visualization techniques
  • Evaluate and propose solutions to biological challenges within data production
  • Work closely with external scientists to conduct research, develop novel analysis pipelines to improve UniProt data quality
  • Communicate and coordinate production work with UniProt Consortium members, software developers, and biologists involved in the database release cycl
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