Assistant Professor
Institute of Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science
University of Georgia

Location: EBI - Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK
Staff Category: Staff Member
Contract Duration: 3 years
Grading: 5
Closing Date: 26 June 2011
Reference number: EBI_00089

*Job Description*
The Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) group at the European
Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is seeking to recruit a Scientific
Curator for a demanding role in the curation of the UniProt databases.
The mission of the UniProt team is to provide the scientific community
with a comprehensive, high quality and freely accessible resource of
protein sequence and functional information.

The Gene Ontology project is a major bioinformatics initiative with the aim of standardizing the representation of gene and gene product attributes across species and databases.

At the core of the project is an ontology consisting of 30,000 classes arranged in a graph-like structure. The ontology is in the process of being integrated with other orthogonal ontologies such as the Cell Ontology, CHEBI and anatomical ontologies. The ontology is currently
constructed by domain experts using OBO-Edit (Day-Richter 2007), in combination with a web-based system called TermGenie.

We are currently looking for software engineers to join the Gene
Ontology (GO) Consortium for a one year long project.

The software engineers will have with proficiency in java database
programming and will be responsible for assisting in the redesign of the GO database
schema, API and submission system. The candidates will implement a
database and production pipeline that is integrated with a wide variety of annotation and ontology tools.

Please note that this is appointment is for one year only, with no guarantee of employment after this period.

We are currently seeking applicants for two Biocurator posts for the Schizosaccharomyces pombe (fission yeast) Model Organism Database "PomBase". PomBase is a new collaborative project between the University of Cambridge, Ensembl Genomes Project at the European Bioinformatics Institute and University College London and will replace the existing GeneDB resource for fission yeast. One curator will be based at Cambridge University and one at University College London.

The following curator and ontology developer positions are available:

The MENGO project (http://mengo.vbi.vt.edu) is offering 2 positions:
Community Coordinator and Bioenergy Curator. Both are at the Senior Project Associate
Level. If interested please follow these links:

* Community Coordinator
https://www.vbi.vt.edu/component/option,com_jobline/Itemid,74/task,view/...

* Bioenergy Curator
https://www.vbi.vt.edu/component/option,com_jobline/Itemid,74/task,view/...