Bioinformatics Job opening

[crypticwanderer]

A position just opened up on my team at work.  To apply go to http://www.broad.mit.edu/info/careers/.

The job is pretty cool - we practice agile development here, which basically means we work directly with the team developing the assembly software, and have nightly builds.  We develop our own tools to assist in analyzing the assemblies, looking for

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[crypticwanderer]

My team acts as the intermediary between the raw data and the principal investigators (PI). As such, we all do multiple projects. We focus on microbial genomes (viral, fungal, bacterial), and currently use multiple technologies (454, Solexa, ABI) - so we do both short and long read assemblies. Our analysis involves using visualization tools to identify misassemblies, as well as looking at the statistics that we regularly generate for assemblies and investigating anything unusual. We also work with the PI if they come back with any assembly issues to resolve them

[crypticwanderer]

FYI, we just added another requisition for our team, are going to soon be assembling mammalian genomes as well as microbial, and are going to be getting a couple of 8-core 128 gb RAM machines in the very near future to do said mammalian assemblies.