Careers

From Bioinformatics.Org Wiki

Listed below are a number of companies and institutions actively recruiting in the area.

Contents 1 In Africa 2 In Europe 3 In the United States 3.1 Boston area 3.2 California 3.3 North Carolina (Research Triangle and vicinity) 3.4 Tennessee 3.5 Texas 3.6 Washington DC area (encompassing the NIH) 4 Resources for finding employment

[edit] In Africa

• Covenant University Bioinformatics Unit in Ota, Nigeria

• Biosciences East and Central Africa in Nairobi, Kenya

• International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya.

[edit] In Europe

• EMBL-EBI in Hinxton/Cambridge, UK

• Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton/Cambridge, UK

[edit] In the United States

[edit] Boston area

• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, MA

• Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA

[edit] California

• Accelrys in San Diego, CA

• J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego, CA

[edit] North Carolina (Research Triangle and vicinity)

• SRA International in Durham, NC

[edit] Tennessee

• St. Jude's in Memphis, TN

[edit] Texas

• Eureka Genomics Corporation in Houston, TX

[edit] Washington DC area (encompassing the NIH)

• Computercraft in Bethesda, MD

• Digicon Corporation in Bethesda, MD

• J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, MD

• SAIC-Frederick in Gaithersburg, MD

• SRA International in Rockville, MD

[edit] Resources for finding employment

Start here at Bioinformatics.Org's Career Center.

Then move on to the appointments / careers sections of the the major scientific journals, or, better, search their Web jobs pages with "bioinformatics":

• Nature
• Science
• Cell and New Scientist have a pooled job site: sciencejobs.com

Appropriately for a Web-dependent discipline, there are a variety of specialist commercial Web sites which carry bioinformatics jobs:

• Bioinformatics.fr
• BioInform
• BioPlanet

Useful guidance:

• How to prepare your CV
• How to prepare for your first interview