The Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit is an internationally renowned institution focussed on the delivery of field-changing mechanistic insights into toxicology and disease. We are looking for a Bioinformatician to join the Bioinformatics Core Facility at the MRC Toxicology Unit, providing expert support to research scientists in data processing, statistical analysis, integration and visualisation of disparate datasets, development of analysis workflows, and training. You will contribute to various support and training tasks as part of a team under the supervision of the Facility Manager and the Academic Lead.
A degree in a scientific or computational discipline is required together with a postgraduate degree (PhD) and/or experience in bioinformatics or computational biology. Experience in consulting with non-computational research scientists on experimental design and bioinformatics analysis and/or publication record of meaningful analysis roles in peer reviewed articles is highly desirable.
Basic programming or scripting skills and experience in cluster computing are required together with experience in computational analysis of high-throughput molecular biology experiments. Expert knowledge and ability to work in the following areas is essential:
• Mass-spectrometry based proteomics – processing of proteomics data including working with raw data, statistical analysis, and feature identification. Helping researchers in interpretation of the statistical analysis.
In addition, skills/experience in the areas below are desirable:
• General Statistical Data analysis – application of statistical tests and models, e.g., data normalization and clustering; familiarity with R/Bioconductor packages
• Bioinformatics tools and databases – practical experience of a range of bioinformatics software packages and database resources
• Custom analysis of other biological datasets such as imaging
This is 2-year fixed-term position funded by the MRC.
Further information on the Toxicology Unit can be found at (
http://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk). Informal inquiries are welcome and can be directed to Kiran Patil (
[email protected])
