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BACKGROUND

Living DNA is leading the way in delivering direct to to consumer DNA testing with true purpose. Based near Bath in the UK the company provides its services on a global basis and is actively expanding its team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Living DNA is seeking a highly motivated individual to join our company in a hands on manner. The key task is developing, managing, and programming scalable bioinformatics pipelines to infer human ancestry and health-related information from SNP data.

You will work closely with leading academic partners and our internal bioinformatics team to evolve algorithms that have been developed to calculate genetic ancestry, relationships and traits. Part of these methods and processes are unique and highly specialised offering a unique picture on individuals' genetic history. Both for ancestry and health trait determination, the position will also involve identification, selection and implementation of public and proprietary methods, as well as mining of genetic data.

This is a commercial position where you will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the various pipelines, database and data management, as well as programming and development of new features.

In addition to commercial aspects and being an essential part of an exciting development with public awareness, you will also have the opportunity to scientifically publish in collaboration with leading universities.

REQUIREMENTS

A candidate with skills in interfacing and project management who has 2+ years working experience would be great a great fit.

Essential Technical experience needed:

Coding language of Python and preferably also java and C/C++
Experience analysing datasets and statistical tests with R
Familiarity with version control software such as GitHub
Extensive knowledge of Linux operating system
High performance Computing, such as Amazon Web Services
Working knowledge and interest in Statistical Genetics
Familiarity with version control software such as GitHub
Understanding databases such as experience with creating MySQL

PREFERENCES

Nice to have:

Management and Statistical Analysis of Big Data
Web development such as PHP, HTML
Working and knowledge of R Studio
Prior working with human population genetics and ancestry inference

For clarification questions please email Martin Blythe a marting[at]livingdna.com.

TERMS

Permanent, 5-10 year funding secured with option to extend

LOCALE

Frome, Somerset, UK

COMPENSATION

In line with experience

HOW TO APPLY

Please visit https://dnaworldwide.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=11748b21-7f4c-4a00-9961-493bb3080286

DEADLINE

15th February 2016

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