Senior Bioinformatician @ The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

• Salary range £29,388 to £37,393 per annum dependent on experience.
• We are looking for highly motivated candidates who have a PhD (or MSc plus direct practical experience) in bioinformatics, literature curation, and/or experience in handling large biological sequence datasets.

By developing high throughput technologies to systematically detect extracellular protein interactions, the Cell Surface Signalling Laboratory has identified extracellular receptor-ligand interactions that are essential for cellular recognition processes (see Nature v508 p483 and Nature v480 p534). The specific project will involve computationally integrating multiple datasets and the literature to compile a comprehensive gene set of human cell surface receptor proteins that will be used to create an important new screening tool for the laboratory.

Essential Skills

• PhD (or MSc plus practical experience) in bioinformatics or a related area
• Experience in the application of bioinformatics tools
• Experience in handling large datasets through Awk/Perl/Python scripting or expert use of Excel
• Experience in reading and curating biological literature

Other information

Postdoctoral Fellows are typically in their first or second postdoctoral position as part of a period of early career research training. This position is fixed-term for maternity cover. Due to the nature of the contract no minimum or maximum period of employment can be guaranteed. You should be aware the maximum period of maternity leave available to our employees is 12 months.

• The closing date for applications is 8th June 2014

Apply here

• https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1764&p_web_page_id=187258