Summer Students:
Every year we receive a large number of requests from undergraduate students from around the world who would like to spend 2-3 months in the summer working in
the group. Although we have had summer students in the past (see the Alumni pages for past students) this has always been at their own expense. Students have written web interfaces and server-side code to applications that we have. Future projects will likely involve writing java servlets and/or developing SOAP-based services. Students get to use our HPC cluster of computers and learn applications to protein sequence and structure analysis.
In 2007/8 approximately 70 people wrote asking for a place and almost all would have been good candidates to work with us over the summer. Unfortunately, we can at
best only take one person. We try to reply to all who make enquiries, but with so many applicants, this takes quite a lot of time. If you are interested in a summer placement, please
save time by checking the following:
1. You must be competent in a computer programming language such as Java and/or perl. In a summer placement, you will learn how to use this skill in a bioinformatics
environment. Except in exceptional circumstances we are not able to take summer students from biology/biochemistry who have no computer programming experience.
2. You do not have to pay us fees, but you must have funds to pay for your living and travel expenses yourself. We have no funds to pay you during your visit, or cover
any of your other expenses.
3. To apply for a summer placement, send the following by email to Geoff Barton.
(a) Full CV including details of any research projects you may have undertaken and any programming experience you have. Examples of programming projects would be good to
include.
(b) Having read our web pages, please write in half a page, an outline of the type of project you think you would like to do.
(c) Include contact details for your course tutor or other referee who is prepared to write a reference.
4. Applicants who do not provide the information above, are unlikely to be accepted.
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