The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | UI/UX Science Developer | Toronto, ONSITE | ~1-2mo Contract | RNAlab.ca
We're an academic research lab focused on Exploring Earth's Virome, and identifying which viruses could be human disease-causing agents. We are building, Open Virome, an open-source platform to provide scientists with the ability to derive actionable insights from a massive DNA/RNA sequencing database, the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). The SRA houses billions of dollars of data from over 27 million datasets (~100 petabytes raw data) collected over 16 years. By querying, aggregating and displaying relationships between sequencing datasets (and meta-data) and the viruses they contain, we hope to illuminate the hidden universe of viruses all around us.
We're seeking a talented and innovative designer to assist the team with designing a user-friendly, intuitive, and visually compelling web interface for this research project and help further biomedical discovery. Looking for the right balance of design, data-scientist, and data visualization. Expertise in network analysis / virology is an asset. Send an email, introduce yourself, and please include your portfolio (examples of your previous work).
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | University of Toronto | Full-Time | ONSITE
We're a research computational biology lab at the forefront of RNA virus discovery. Our goal is to help prevent the next pandemic by building the technical infrastructure to assist global virology research and public-health responses.
Seeking a Computational Virology / Microbiologist / Bioinformatician who is creative, passionate, and willing to learn. Key assets: Python/R, AWS/HPC, postgres, javascript. See full job posting: http://rrna.ca/id0001
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | University of Toronto | Full-Time | ONSITE
We're a research computational biology lab at the forefront of RNA virus discovery. Our goal is to help prevent the next pandemic by building the technical infrastructure to assist global virology research and public-health responses.
Seeking a full-stack developer who is creative, passionate, and willing to learn. No biology experience is necessary, but it is a plus. Key assets: Python/R, AWS/HPC, postgres, javascript. See full job posting: http://rrna.ca/id0002 or if you're a biologist http://rrna.ca/id0001
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | University of Toronto | Full-Time | ONSITE
We're a research computational biology lab at the forefront of RNA virus discovery. Our goal is to help prevent the next pandemic by building the technical infrastructure to assist global virology research and public-health responses.
Seeking a full-stack developer who is creative, passionate, and willing to learn. No biology experience is necessary, but it is a plus. Key assets: Python/R, AWS/HPC, postgres, javascript. See full job posting: http://rrna.ca/id0002 or if you're a biologist http://rrna.ca/id0001
I'm a developer for the OSS Serratus project, https://www.serrartus.io where we have a web-portal used to explore where RNA viruses show up in public sequencing datasets (we've analyzed ~21 petabytes of sequencing data to make this dataset).
There's lots of rich meta-data associated with these RNA sequencing datasets, so what I'm trying to do is create meaningful meta-data aggregation and associate them with different types of viruses to make a sort of procedural generated encyclopedia of RNA viruses. Be less biased by what scientists expect to see, and focus more on what is actually observed for virus biology and epidemiology. I've built a little proof of concept called `palmID` (www.serratus.io/palmid) but I think there's lots more to be done to make this really shine.
The Laboratory for RNA-Based Lifeforms | University of Toronto | Full-Time | ONSITE
We're a research computational biology lab at the forefront of RNA virus and virus-like agent discovery. Our goal is to help prevent the next pandemic by building the technical infrastructure to assist global virology research and public-health responses.
Seeking a full-stack developer who is creative, passionate, and willing to learn. No biology experience neccesary, but are a plus. Key assets: Python/R, AWS/HPC, postgres, javascript. See full job posting: http://rrna.ca/id0002
Serratus (https://github.com/ababaian/serratus) is an OSS bioinformatics project created by a passionate group of volunteers. Short story is we're re-analyzing all of the world's DNA/RNA sequencing data to find new viruses that other people have missed. It works surprisingly well, but there's a ton left to do.
Genomics today is the internet of the early 90s or programming of the late 70s. There is going to be an enormous boom in genomics-derived technologies in the coming decade which has been driven by the exponential decay in data generation costs. You're absolutely right that places with a "startup" mentality are where to be right now.
On that note :) I'm starting a forward-looking research lab at UofT to advance massive-scale (think petabytes) genetic analyses and am looking to find the right few individuals who have a similar vision. It's difficult to find passionate engineers with a solid CS and HPC background who are willing to meet halfway and work _together_ with biologists in getting the analysis right. Robert does this _very_ well, and that's why we recently co-wrote a landmark Nature paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04332-2.
We're an academic research lab focused on Exploring Earth's Virome, and identifying which viruses could be human disease-causing agents. We are building, Open Virome, an open-source platform to provide scientists with the ability to derive actionable insights from a massive DNA/RNA sequencing database, the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). The SRA houses billions of dollars of data from over 27 million datasets (~100 petabytes raw data) collected over 16 years. By querying, aggregating and displaying relationships between sequencing datasets (and meta-data) and the viruses they contain, we hope to illuminate the hidden universe of viruses all around us.
Project Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPUM-adhXd8&t=5875s
Project Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04332-2
We're seeking a talented and innovative designer to assist the team with designing a user-friendly, intuitive, and visually compelling web interface for this research project and help further biomedical discovery. Looking for the right balance of design, data-scientist, and data visualization. Expertise in network analysis / virology is an asset. Send an email, introduce yourself, and please include your portfolio (examples of your previous work).