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http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
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Organization Description:
Established in 1981, Computercraft specializes in scientific, technical, and management support services for the public and private sectors. Since 1989, we’ve been assisting government agencies to execute innovative life sciences projects and databases particularly in the field of biotechnology and genetics research. Currently, we have over 50 scientists working onsite at the NIH and continue to seek PhD and Masters level candidates with backgrounds in molecular biology, genetics, computational biology as well as related scientific fields.
Computercraft achieves success through our customer-driven approach to good business, dedicated team of professionals, and continuous pursuit of innovative solutions.
Please take a look at our job openings and apply to our positions, visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/. Our current openings include: GenBank Biologist, dbGaP Genotype Curator, Metagenome Bioinformatics Scientist and others.
Computercraft offers a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package including PPO health insurance with 100% company paid premiums, 401K program with matching, paid time off and holiday pay, life insurance, flexible spending and disability coverage. We offer an excellent work life balance with a standard 40 hour work week and the chance to work alongside accomplished scientists at NIH/NCBI.
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
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Position Descriptions:
POSITION: GenBank Biologist
It’s 2 am. You type the name of your favorite gene into Genbank and are rewarded with information—sequence, references, related genes. You are intrigued by the countless possibilities for new experiments, but part of you longs for a different career away from the bench and 2 am dates with your computer.
If you see yourself in this scenario, consider experiencing life on the other side of a Genbank query. Computercraft is seeking new additions to its team of creative and dedicated scientists who have supported GenBank since 1991. Molecular biologists who are just completing a post-doc are especially encouraged to apply.
As a Genbank biologist you would work together with professionals at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD.
Your responsibilities would include: creating complete and accurate Genbank records from the sequence data and annotation submitted by individual investigators and large-scale sequencing projects and helping to administer and maintain GenBank.
Requirements:
• A Ph.D. in molecular biology or a related field
• Extensive laboratory experience in molecular biology
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• An aptitude for DNA sequence analysis (experience with DNA sequence analysis software is a plus)
• The ability to work as part of a team
• A strong desire to support public scientific databases such as Genbank
• A detail-oriented outlook coupled with a love for puzzle and problem solving
To apply for this position or learn about other Computercraft job opportunities, please visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
POSITION: dbGaP Genotype Curator
Computercraft seeks a computational biologist with a background in genotype analysis to work with NCBI scientists to develop infrastructure to analyze large-scale genomic data with clinical phenotype data. The successful candidate will work onsite at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the Genotype and Phenotype database group http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gap . This groundbreaking project is aimed to assist scientists discover associations between genetic variants and risks for disease.
Responsibilities will include genotype analysis pipeline development, data reformatting, data quality control, management of a relational database, data curation, and communication with external investigators. This is an opportunity to be involved in the development of a new resource with the potential to revolutionize human genetic disease research.
Requirements:
• Ph.D. or M.S. or sufficient experience in genetic linkage analysis and/or allelic association studies
• Scripting experience in Perl
• Relational database experience (SQL)
• Linux/UNIX experience
• Ability to work with a team in a production environment and communicate well with NCBI biologists and programmers as well as external scientists
• Strong interest in contributing to the development of public database resources
Other Desirable Experience:
• Human genetics
• Haplotypes
• Analysis of structural variations
• Copy number variation
• Linkage disequilibrium
• QA filtering of genotype data (HWE, non-Mendelian segregation)
• PedCheck, Aspex, MERLIN, CRIMAP
• C++
• XML/XSLT
• HTML/CGI
• Experience with dbSNP
To apply for this position or learn about other Computercraft job opportunities, please visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
POSITION: dbSNP Curator
The Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms database (dbSNP) serves as a central repository for both single base nucleotide substitutions and short deletion and insertion polymorphisms. Computercraft seeks a biologist with significant knowledge in life sciences to help curate dbSNP records, process submissions, and perform data analyst tasks. Candidates should also have the ability to rapidly develop applications to process data into database and CGI to generate reports.
The individual will work onsite at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. Our scientists work with genomic experts at NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to create and enhance a suite of databases and tools available to researchers worldwide.
Requirements:
• PhD in molecular biology or highly related field; additional post-doctoral laboratory experience is desired
• Technical familiarity with sequence analysis and bioinformatics softwares
• Relational database and SQL programming experience
• Programming experience (Perl, Python, or C++)
• Teamwork interaction, excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as organizational skills are essential
• Ideal candidate will have experience in genotyping and QC processing
Additional information about the Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms is available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/SNP/
To apply for this position or learn about other Computercraft job opportunities, please visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
POSITION: Metagenome Bioinformatics Scientist
Computercraft seeks a highly motivated individual to curate environmental sample sequences in GenBank and other related resources at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These samples include sequences from more traditional site-directed environmental sample studies (rRNAs, and other loci) as well as more recent ‘metagenomics’ projects involving undirected whole-environment shotgun sequencing strategies.
The NCBI directed project aims to make these data more useful to the relevant research communities. The successful candidate will be in direct contact with all the current research and researchers in this field. Specifically, the individual will work with the external scientific groups that generate and study environmental sequence data, and with the various groups at the NCBI that are involved in the submission, classification and use of these sequences.
The successful candidate will work in the NCBI Taxonomy group and collaborate with experts in GenBank, Genomes, BLAST, and Probe database groups onsite at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. This is an opportunity for the right person to make a significant contribution to the scientific community.
Responsibilities:
• Design a broad strategy to represent and manipulate environmental sequence data (site-specific and metagenomic).
• Curate the nomenclature and classification of environmental sequences in the NCBI Taxonomy Database.
• Assist in the development of submission tools, annotation guidelines, analysis and statistical software tools for environmental sequences.
• Develop resources at the NCBI and contacts with the research community to best support these efforts.
Requirements:
• Ph.D. in biology or related field
• Extensive experience with metagenome/environmental sample studies
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
To apply for this position or learn about other Computercraft job opportunities, please visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
POSITION: Assistant Genome Pipeline Coordinator
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) provides the scientific community with annotated versions of genome assemblies for a wide variety of organisms. We are seeking a genomic scientist experienced in working with Linux/UNIX to assist in the coordination of the complex series of tasks required to produce NCBI’s annotated eukaryotic genome assemblies from data deposited in the public sequence databases.
The successful candidate will work onsite at the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in Bethesda MD.
Responsibilities:
• Organize and validate data required to initiate running new genome assemblies though NCBI's eukaryotic genome annotation pipeline.
• Set up and run the automated parts of the annotation pipeline, and manage the manual steps.
• Monitor the progress of genomes through the multiple steps in the annotation pipeline and run quality assurance checks on intermediate data sets.
• Manage requests for special data sets: define the tasks involved and track progress.
• Collaborate with other biologists and programmers to improve the genome annotation process and the quality of the annotation produced.
Requirements:
• Ph.D. in biology, molecular biology, or related field
• Extensive experience with sequence analysis, genomics or bioinformatics
• Linux/UNIX experience
• Scripting experience in Perl?or Awk is desirable
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Detail-oriented perspective
• Ability to work as part of a team and to collaborate with other scientists and programmers
• Interest in contributing to public database resources
To apply for this position or learn about other Computercraft job opportunities, please visit the Careers section of our website: http://www.computercraft-usa.com/
Computercraft is an equal opportunity employer.
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