Genomic Applications Bioinformatician - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies
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Oxford, United Kingdom

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Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long readlengths.

Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere
Curiosity, learning drive and interest in the genomics domain are crucial.

Knowledge of modern methods in genomics tools development (minimizers, minhash sketching, etc), and/or real-life experience with sequencing data analysis is a plus.

Duties

  • Working closely with members of other teams at ONT to get feedback and stay up to date with the latest and upcoming technological developments.
  • Interacting with other data analysts and bioinformaticians in the company, to efficiently use and adapt their tools.
  • Preparing clear and comprehensive documentation on the developed software and working with Nanopore and Metrichor Developers to facilitate integration of developed methods to Epi2me
  • Planning the appropriate experiments for benchmarking and showcasing developed methods
  • Updating other bioinformaticians in the company on the latest developments and best usage practices
Qualifications and Desired Experience

  • Relevant degree or software engineering experience
  • Extensive contribution (at least one) reallife codebase
  • Strong programming and software design skills
  • Firm knowledge of standard algorithms and data structures
  • Excellent problemsolving skills
  • Basic data wrangling and visualisation
  • Proficiency in some generalpurpose programming language
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary.

Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of whichmake for a wonderful working environment.

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