[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] Sam Bowker • March 26, 2009

    BACKGROUND

    The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomic research, with an expanding scientific programme dedicated to understanding gene function in health & disease.

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic software developer to join the Anacode team. The successful candidate will be involved in the development and maintenance of software and databases to enable the dissemination of analysed and annotated sequence to the institute and wider community. The software, written in object-oriented Perl, builds on the core Ensembl system to add the interactive tools and data sources required by the annotators to curate reference gene and transcript datasets. The post-holder will participate in the continued development of this system, including work on our data APIs, user interfaces, database curation and supporting its daily use. They will be working in team of three other developers, sharing their software development and data curation tasks.

    REQUIREMENTS

    Essential Skills:
    • A degree in a scientific discipline or equivalent experience
    • A good working knowledge of a programming language such as Perl, Python, Java or C, along with UNIX experience and familiarity with relational databases
    • Previous working experience of software development, including some of: Developing large and complex software systems such as: Object oriented programming; Perl language; SQL databases design and maintenance and Managing large quantities of data
    Ideal Skills:
    • Knowledge of bioinformatics and molecular biology
    • Experience of object-oriented Perl, user interface software development and genome scale data analysis and management

    SALARY & COMPENSATION

    Salary Range 27,316 to 37,690 GBP per annum, dependent upon experience.

    The Institute has excellent purpose built facilities on the Genome Campus, Hinxton on the outskirts of Cambridge. We offer a comprehensive range of benefits including a final salary pension scheme and excellent on-site facilities. Further details can be found on our website https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk.

    HOW TO APPLY

    To submit your CV and apply for this job please go to https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk, to register and apply on line. Please enclose a covering letter describing how your previous experiences make you a suitable candidate for this position.

    ARTICLE: Ref. 80311

    DEADLINE

    The closing date for applications is 3 April 2009.

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

    The Anacode team creates the software and databases used for manual annotation of vertebrate genomic DNA sequence by a large team of annotators, who work both on and off site. Our software, written in object-oriented Perl, builds on the core Ensembl system to add the interactive tools and data sources required by our annotators to curate reference gene and transcript datasets. The principal species are human, mouse and zebrafish. The team is part of the Sanger informatics group, which provides us with the backing of a large number of experienced people and extensive compute resources.

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