UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE

DIVISION OF Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery

COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

GRADE 7 (£26,666)

The Postdoctoral Research Assistant will join the bioinformatics research group of Professor Geoff Barton in the 5* rated School of Life Sciences Research in the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee.  The group has excellent space and computing facilities for bioinformatics research as well as technical and systems support staff.

Jalview is an interactive, user friendly, Java application for protein and nucleic acid alignment analysis and visualization (www.jalview.org).  It is freely available GPL software deployed as a Java Application on over 15,000 computers worldwide and as an applet on tens of thousands of web pages.  Jalview interacts with SOAP-webservices to provide complex and CPU intensive analyses of sequences with rapid visualization of results.  The aim of this position is to extend the suite of SOAP web services for sequence database searching, alignment, clustering and annotation/analysis.  The work will require enhancements to the existing service architecture and the improvement of client-side visualization facilities.

We seek a candidate with at least one year's experience in the development of large applications in Java ideally with webservice development.  Preference will be given to candidates who also have research experience in the computational analysis of biological sequences. 

This position is funded by SFC for 18 months and is available immediately.

Informal enquiries for should be directed to Professor Geoff Barton, e-mail: geoff@compbio.dundee.ac.uk or telephone: +44 (0) 1382 345860 / 345843 (Applications sent to this address will not be considered).

In addition to an excellent scientific environment Tayside offers an affordable standard of living in an area of outstanding natural beauty situated beside the sea and the highlands of Scotland.

Applications in the form of a CV and covering letter, including the names and addresses of 3 referees, should be sent to HR-LifeSciences@dundee.ac.uk quoting LS/xxxx.  Alternatively, please send 2 copies of your CV and covering letter to Human Resources, College of Life Sciences, MSI/WTB/JBC Complex, University of Dundee, DD1 5EH.

Further details are available from our website: www.jobs.dundee.ac.uk.  Alternatively, contact Human Resources +44 (0) 1382 386209 (answering machine) or email as above quoting LS/XXXX.

Applicants will only be contacted if invited for interview.

Closing Date: 22 February 2008

The University of Dundee is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

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