The Plant Sciences Department at the Institute of Agriculture in Knoxville TN is seeking 2 (two) Bioinformatics IT Specialist II positions. The department is interested in building computational infrastructure and in pursuing biological discoveries. We operate at the interface between biology, computer science, statistics, and software engineering. Our projects span a wide spectrum of organisms (plants, animals, microbiomes) and technology platforms (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics). We have a particular focus on building and integrating tools for biological data analysis, data integration and knowledge mining. The position being advertised will be involved in one or more Department of Energy funded projects focusing on building tools and infrastructure for management, analysis, integration and mining of biological data. Current representative projects include cbi.ornl.gov/ and kbase.us.
REQUIRED: A BS degree in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent amount of experience. Requires a minimum of three years’ experience in software application development and programming. Must have proven expertise in building robust software in a multi-developer environment. Must be capable of leading more junior developers.
PREFERRED: MS degree in Computer Science or related field and 1+ years experience, jQuery, d3, Docker, Python/, Java, R/Bioconductor, MongoDB, git and familiarity with software tools for omics data analysis and integration.
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