Opportunity: Natural Language Processing Analyst @ Marine Biological Laboratory--Woods Hole, MA (US)

Opportunity: Natural Language Processing Analyst @ Marine Biological Laboratory--Woods Hole, MA (US)
Submitted by Holly Miller; posted on Thursday, April 9, 2009

The MBLWHOI Library at the Marine Biological Laboratory seeks applications for highly motivated informatics specialists to join a growing team of developers and informaticians focusing on the biology of aging. Join a community of researchers that are internationally recognized as defining the current trends and practices in marine information sciences and biological informatics.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools and RESTFUL web services Architect applications and web services using Java, Ruby, Rails Architect and develop data pipelines to integrate information from a range of data sources including, but not limited to: genomics, phenomics, biodiversity, demography, consumer health, and clinical research databases.

Collaborate with the biodiversity informatics group of the Encyclopedia of Life initiative, which is also located at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Report to the Project Director for the Ellison Medical Foundation (EMF) funded initiative at the Marine Biological Laboratory to study the biology of aging across the spectrum of life.

REQUIREMENTS

Education/Experience:
Required:

Masters degree in Bioinformatics or comparable experience
Formal training in biological science (e.g., molecular biology, biochemistry, biophysics)
Demonstrable experience with database management systems (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL) and programming (e.g., Perl, PHP, Ruby, C/C++, and Java)
Understanding of Semantic Web concepts, such as: RDF, OWL, Inference Engines, URIs
Significant Experience implementing efficient algorithms in areas such as:
Search engine query processing and/or index construction
Inference algorithms, Logic Algorithms
Machine Learning / Statistical Methods
Graph Theory Algorithms
Natural Language Processing algorithms, such as Entity Extraction

Preferred:

Experience developing in a Mac OS X or Linux environment
Experience in open source technologies is required and individuals who have participated in or contributed to the development of open source projects will be given higher consideration

TERMS: Full Time

LOCALE: Woods Hole, MA

HOW TO APPLY

http://mbl.simplehire.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50669

The MBL is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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