Job Vacancy: Bioinformatician (Metabolomics) at the IPB Halle

The IPB is an international research institute located on the Weinberg-campus in Halle and provides state-of-the-art facilities for research in bioinformatics, metabolomics and plant biochemistry.

The research group “Bioinformatics and Mass Spectrometry” in the department of Stress- and Developmental Biology at the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is seeking applications by highly motivated candidates for a position as research assistant. In the context of the EU project  PhenoMeNal you will work on the integration of existing computational metabolomics methods into efficient and versatile workflows, and their execution on local and European grid infrastructures.

You should hold a diploma or masters degree in bioinformatics or computer science, with experience in algorithm and software engineering and statistics. You are able to program in the statistics framework R, and have worked in Java or C/C++. Knowledge in metabolomics or Grid-/Cloud computing would be an advantage. The position is limited to 3 years, and available from 01.10.2015.

Payment is according to local regulations TV-L.

Further information is available from the institute's homepage http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/, for inquires please contact Dr. Steffen Neumann, telephone: +49 345 5582-1470, e-Mail: sneumann@ipb-halle.de .

 

Please send your application (cover letter addressing your research interests, CV, transcripts, and names/contacts of two references) quoting reference number 20/2015 until September 15th, 2015 to:

     Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB)
     Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
     AG Personalangelegenheiten
     Frau Kerstin Balkenhohl
     Weinberg 3
     06120 Halle (Saale)

or to bewerbungen@ipb-halle.de 

Job Vacancy: Bioinformatician (Metabolomics) at the IPB Halle

The IPB is an international research institute located on the Weinberg-campus of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and provides state-of-the-art facilities for research in bioinformatics, metabolomics and plant biochemistry.

The research group “Bioinformatics and Mass Spectrometry” in the department of Stress- and Developmental Biology at the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is seeking applications by highly motivated candidates for a position as research assistant. You will work on methods for metabolomics data analyses and data fusion, to discover relationships between metabolites and their biomedical effects.

You should hold a diploma or masters degree in bioinformatics or computer science, with experience in algorithm- and software engineering and statistics. You are able to program in the statistics framework R, and have worked in Java. Knowledge in metabolomics or analytical biochemistry would be an advantage. The position is limited to 3 years, and available immediately. Payment is according to local regulations TV-L.

Further information is available from the institute's homepage http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/, for inquires please contact Dr. Steffen Neumann, telephone: +49 345 5582-1470, e-Mail: sneumann@ipb-halle.de .

Please send your application (cover letter addressing your research interests, CV, transcripts, and names/contacts of two references) quoting reference number 6/2015 until April 27th, 2015 to:

     Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie (IPB)
     Stiftung des öffentlichen Rechts
     AG Personalangelegenheiten
     Frau Kerstin Balkenhohl
     Weinberg 3
     06120 Halle (Saale)

or to bewerbungen@ipb-halle.de 

Job Vacancy: Bioinformatician (Metabolomics) at the IPB Halle

The research group “bioinformatics and mass spectrometry” in the department of Stress- and Developmental Biology at the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is seeking applications by highly motivated candidates for a position as Bioinformatician (Metabolomics).

You will work on methods and algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of metabolomics data from state-of-the-art mass spectrometers. You should hold a diploma or masters degree in bioinformatics or computer science, with experience in algorithm- and software engineering and statistics. You are able to program in the statistics framework R, and have worked C/C++. Knowledge in metabolomics or analytical biochemistry would be an advantage.

The position is limited to 3 years and available immediately. Payment is according to local regulations TV-L.

The IPB is an international research institute located on the Weinberg-campus of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and provides state-of-the-art facilities for research in bioinformatics, metabolomics and plant biochemistry.

Further information is available from the institute's homepage and in particular http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/career/job-vacancies/joboffer-detail/bioinformatikerin-metabomolics/

CASMI published first challenges

In the Critical Assessment of Small Molecule Identification (CASMI) contest we are publishing a set of LC/MS and GC/MS spectra on www.casmi-contest.org, and call the community to identify the underlying compounds. In different categories we ask for the molecular formula and/or for the molecular structure.

We now have deposited a first round of challenge spectra, and will add more over the course of the next weeks. If you are doing computational mass spectrometry, or you are an expert in spectral interpretation, or just started to learn mass spectrometry: these spectra help to "show off" your skills.

Early in 2013, we will reveal the compounds, evaluate the submissions and call for papers in a special issue of the journal Metabolites, where the participants describe their efforts.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at casmi2012(at)ipb-halle.de, or join the mailing lists.

Post-doctoral Scientist

Within the EU Project COSMOS, 14 European project partners develop data standards and workflows for metabolomics, which are a requirement for efficient collaboration and data exchange. At the IPB we are leading the work package “Standards Development”.

You have a degree in Bioinformatics, Computer Science or a related discipline, and a PhD in Life Sciences, Data Standards, or e-Infrastructures. You are excited to work in the growing field of Open Data, and you want to specify the description of experimental (meta-)data with existing and new ontologies, and use semantic web technology to retrieve and analyse the data in the emerging e-Infrastructure for Metabolomics data.

The IPB is an international research institute located on the weinberg-campus of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and provides state-of-the-art facilities for research in bioinformatics, metabolomics and plant biochemistry. For further details please check out our website.

Open position at the IPB Halle in computational mass spectrometry

The research group “bioinformatics and mass spectrometry” in the department of Stress- and Developmental Biology at the Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry (IPB) is seeking applications by highly motivated candidates for a position as research assistant.

You will work on algorithms for the identification of metabolites from mass spectrometry data, together with colleagues from both bio- and chemoinformatics. The methods will be available as user-friendly web applications, but also as part of universal metabolomics workflows on the IPB compute cluster.

You should hold a diploma or masters degree in bioinformatics or computer science, with experience in algorithm- and software engineering and statistics. You are able to program in Java, the statistics framework R, and have worked with relational databases. Knowledge in metabolomics or biochemistry would be an advantage. The position is available immediately. Payment is according to local regulations TV-L.
The IPB is an international research institute located on the weinberg-campus of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and provides state-of-the-art facilities for research in bioinformatics, metabolomics and plant biochemistry. Further information is available from the institute's homepage http://www.ipb-halle.de/en/, for inquires please contact Dr. Steffen Neumann, Telephone: +49 345 5582-1470, e-Mail: sneumann@ipb-halle.de

Job: Postdoctoral Researcher at EBI, Hinxton/UK

NatureJobs reports:

Research into and development of methods for computer-assisted structure elucidation of biological metabolites based on mass spectrometry and NMR data. For this position in the Steinbeck group, the postdoctoral researchers need to hold a PhD degree in chemistry, biology, bioinformatics, computer science or a related field. They have good knowledge of standard software development and the ability to use, modify and adapt others code if necessary. Applicants should have proven experience with programming in Java as well as chemoinformatics and bioinformatics software development. The successful applicant must work on their own initiative, but work as part of a wider team and collaborate with colleagues, internally and externally where required. The position is based in the Chemoinformatics and Metabolism (Steinbeck Research Group). It is initially termed for 12 months, extension may be possible.

Chemical Systems Biology Meeting, Philidelphia, August 17-21, 2008

Rajarshi Guha wrote on the Chemical Computation List:

Chemical Systems Biology: Integrating Chemistry and Biology for
Network Models
236th ACS National Meeting
Philadelphia, August 17-21, 2008
CINF Division
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Dear Colleagues,
Josef Scheiber and I are organizing a symposium focusing on the use of biological networks and their models for the purposes of drug discovery. Traditionally, such models have been applied to large scale biological systems such as protein-protein interaction networks. Recently, there has been increased interest in the study of these networks to gain a global understanding of biological systems and the impact of small molecules to them in the context of drug discovery. As a result, it has become important that such models integrate small molecules with the usual biological systems. By leveraging the power of established cheminformatics methods along with the network models we get closer to the goal of "chemical systems biology", the full integration of chemical and biological data in the development of better in silico-methods for drug discovery.

We invite you to submit contributions that address various computational aspects of this approach including, but not limited to: network construction, integration of multiple data sources in network models, drug repurposing, target identification, polypharmacology, incorporation of chemical structure/similarity into network models, bridging chemical structure and biological structure based network models. Case studies where computational network models have provided experimental insight are also welcome.

We would also like to point out that sponsorship opportunities are available.

Please use the on-line abstract submission system (OASYS) for submitting your abstract (http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm). OASYS will be accepting abstracts between 28th January and 24th March, 2008.

Please contact Josef or myself if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Josef Scheiber Rajarshi Guha
Novartis Indiana University

The CINF division of the American Chemical Society is oriented at chemical information (molecular really, so including metabolites) and includes chemoinformatics, and increasingly bioinformatics.