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Job Reference No. RP_R00008_Birol Lab_2022_09_08

Summary

The Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is a leading international organization for genomics and bioinformatics research. Our mandate is to advance knowledge in those areas, and to realize the social and economic benefits of genomics research. The Research Programmer analyzes large-scale genomics data and provides support for research projects in the Bioinformatics Technology Lab (BTL) / Genome Sciences Centre – BC Cancer through developing software, data models, analysis pipelines, and documentation. The successful candidate will work independently in a multidisciplinary environment, and participate as a project team member on specific genome research projects to develop / test code and help analyze large volumes of genomics data.

The successful applicant will be part of a team of research scientists working in a dynamic environment to primarily develop and apply data analysis algorithms and protocols to analyze genome data. You will be contributing to advancing science, cancer and genome research locally and worldwide.

The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) is seeking a full-stack Software Developer I to join a team developing leading edge opensource applications for analyzing genomic data in cloud compute environments. The applications will be used by researchers around the world to process and interpret vast amounts of cancer genomic data and to apply this understanding to new paradigms for diagnosing and treating cancer.

The project you will work on, Dockstore (https://dockstore.org) is an open source project aimed at providing a scientific tool repository and framework for launching large-scale, cloud-based genomics analysis. Dockstore combines the Docker software container system with portable, standard-compliant workflow descriptions, to create software packages that describe their inputs, outputs, and parameterization, and can easily be combined to form higher-level workflows. This work is closely tied to, and drives adoption of international standards created as part of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)..

The MaRS Centre has a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in place that requires proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or proof of a medical exemption issued pursuant to the Government of Ontario guidelines.  Accordingly, as a condition of employment, new employees who may be required to work on-site are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 subject to the duty to accommodate on the basis of protected grounds pursuant to the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Fully vaccinated is defined as having received all of the required doses of a Health Canada approved vaccine and having received the final dose at least 14 days before your employment start date.

As described above, the requirement to be fully vaccinated is subject to the Ontario Human Rights Code. If the candidate is unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for a reason protected by the Code, requests for accommodation from the vaccine policy will be assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Learn more about working at OICR here.

The role will focus on a series of aims derived from a long term (American) National Institutes of Health U24 grant to operate a production Dockstore ecosystem while developing features to improve its robustness and security. You will have the opportunity to be exposed to a large set of technologies, including compute clouds, container virtualization systems, and genomic workflow technologies. In addition, there will be opportunities to improve your Java back-end and Javascript front-end development skills. As part of our development team you will be working closely with internal and external stakeholders to create an infrastructure that will have a potentially significant impact on society. In addition, you will be working closely with our collaborators at UCSC (University of California Santa Cruz, which forms part of our software development team).

Other responsibilities of the role include researching and designing new features to process new workflow languages and/or services in the Dockstore ecosystem, and supporting the integration of Dockstore into a variety of third party open source and commercial products. We will provide opportunities to conduct outreach and training.

Map of Life (MOL) and the Max Planck – Yale Center for Biodiversity Movement and Global Change (MPYC) are seeking a Software Engineer who is interested developing new technologies to support effective global biodiversity education, monitoring, research and decision-making. The successful candidate will assemble and integrate a wide range of knowledge about species distributions. Map of Life is built on a scalable web platform geared for large biodiversity and environmental data and provides a range of information and biodiversity indicator products. Map of Life leads the data integration and mapping efforts of the Half-Earth Project that aims to identify and prioritize target areas for global biodiversity conservation.

Responsibilities and tasks will include: Developing responsive web applications using Javascript frameworks, Python, NodeJS, Go, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS, documenting through GitHub and workflow optimization, working in Unix-based systems Building and supporting backend API services in Cloud environments Building and supporting frontend interfaces with frameworks like Angular, React, etc Receiving and providing feedback on code, incorporating user feedback directly into products Assessing and meeting technical and stakeholder needs Conducting written and oral presentations of data, interpreting the findings, and providing conclusions and recommendations Solving problems in an organized and logical manner