| Mount Sinai | ||||
| USA-NY-New York | ||||
| Postdoctoral Researcher – Bioinformatics | ||||
| A postdoctoral position is open in Dr. Li Shen’s group at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Our research focuses on the development of tools for next-generation sequencing applications. You will help to build systems that can enhance researchers’ productivity and user experience in analyzing datasets from ChIP-Seq, RNA-Seq and DNA methyl-Seq. You should be passionate about machine learning, Bayesian statistics and have a technology-oriented mind. You want to build killer applications that can handle very large-scale datasets and advance knowledge through data mining. You will have the opportunity to work with a few top-notch scientists in genomics and bioinformatics. You will deal with the massive biological datasets generated from a few internationally or nationally renowned labs. | ||||
| Requirements: * Ph.D. in computer science, computational biology, bioinformatics or related fields. * Strong programming skills including C, C++, Java, Javascript. * Scripting skills with Perl, Python or PHP (or similar). * Working experience with Linux and High performance computing. * Experience with AJAX technology a strong plus. * Working knowledge with machine learning, bioinformatics and biostatistics a strong plus. * User interface design a plus. * Knowledge with molecular biology, genomics and DNA sequencing a plus. * Very good communication skills. | ||||
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| Position Type: Faculty | ||||
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| Start Date: 2009-01-01 | ||||
| Duration: Full Time | ||||
| Status: open | ||||
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