BACKGROUND

Join us building Pathway Commons, a research resource for biological pathways and cellular processes. Collaborate with scientists around the world to refine the standard BioPAX language for exchanging pathway data. Aggregate and integrate information and make it available to the scientific world for use in the scientific discovery process. Become part of the revolutionary expansion of biological knowledge connecting molecular behavior to system properties. Two pathway informatics positions are available immediately in Chris Sander's Computational and Systems Biology Group in the Computational Biology Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City. Pathway Commons is a collaborative project with Gary Bader's group at the University of Toronto. MSKCC is one of the world's premier cancer centers with an emphasis on leading-edge research.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As Infrastructure Developer, working with the Pathway Commons team, you will build tools and develop software systems for aggregating, integrating, querying and analyzing biological pathway information. Your tasks include helping develop a software library for BioPAX, designing and developing a state-of-the-art query backend, new algorithms for comparing and merging pathways and an internet application for efficient capture of biological factoids.

REQUIREMENTS

You have a postgraduate degree in computer science, computational biology or a related field, excellent programming skills, preferably in Java, and experience in knowledge representation. A strong interest in molecular biology and previous experience in developing bioinformatics applications is a big plus.

HOW TO APPLY

Apply to pathway-commons-jobscbio.mskcc.org preferably by 16 Dec 2008.