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Textpresso Software Developer

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Textpresso is hiring
Textpresso (http://www.textpresso.org), a search engine for biomedical literature and text mining project, and a GMOD Component, is seeking candidates to fill the position of a software developer.
Basic qualifications include:

BS in a field of science or engineering.
Documented experience in software development.
Experience with the majority of the following languages: Perl, C/C++, Java, Javascript, Ajax, jQuery.
Familiarity with web application fr

modENCODE Data Access Webinar

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modENCODE project aims to provide the biological research community with a comprehensive encyclopedia of genomic functional elements in the model organisms C. elegans and D. melanogaster. Data Coordination Center for modENCODE is conducting a series of webinars with the next one, "Understanding worm and fly chromatin modification data" scheduled on Thursday Dec 1, 12:00 EST (Eastern US time).

Intern @ Aniseed: work on Chado

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ANISEED seeking interns to work on Chado
Develop modules for a Chado-based Model Organism Database dedicated to the developmental biology in tunicates.
Background:
Our team combines various techniques of molecular and cellular biology, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling to decipher and formalize the embryonic development of animals.

BioMart Special Issue in Database

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I am very pleased to announce the publication of the DATABASE special issue dedicated to the BioMart project
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/databa/biomart_virtual_issue....

BioMart is a unique open source data federation technology that provides unified access to distributed databases storing a wide range of data.

GMOD Workshop Jan 23-25

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GMOD Workshop
A GMOD Workshop is being held 23-25 January in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, as part of the Advanced Topics Workshops immediately following the Workshop on Genomics.
This will be a 3-day focused workshop experience on the installation, usage and development of a subset of GMOD Components.

Galaxy Development Workshop Jan 23

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Galaxy Development Workshop
Update: This workshop has been canceled.
A one day Galaxy Developer Workshop has been scheduled for 23 January in Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, immediately following the Workshop on Genomics, (which also features Galaxy content and is still taking applications).
This workshop is aimed at:

IT and Bioinformatics staff
Galaxy is an easy to use, web-based tool that enables your researchers to perform data integration and analysis, in house,

ZFIN Project Manager Wanted

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ZFIN is hiring
ZFIN, the zebrafish model organism database, located at the University of Oregon is looking for a highly qualified software development project manager. The person who fills this position will work with a team of computer scientists and biologists to design, develop and maintain a dynamic bioinformatics database infrastructure that includes GBrowse and InterMine deployments.

Learn about allergies, cancer, and vanished evolutionary biologist Margie Profet, Thurs. 11/3 at 12noon

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Please join us at NESCent on Thursday Nov.

WormBase Is Hiring

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WormBase is hiring! You want to do web architecture development in support of a project essential to basic biomedical research.
The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research seeks an agile and adaptable software engineer with a broad skill set and an interest in applying it to scientific problems. You will assist the team in designing and implementing a scalable architecture and web interface to a vast array of biological data supporting a global community of researchers.

Explore how evolution can help doctors understand and treat disease

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This summer, NESCent co-sponsored a one week Continuing Medical Education workshop on evolutionary biology for medical practitioners and clinicians, held at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Watch the videos here.Abstracts for the talks are available at https://my.mdibl.org/x/zgMkAQ.Read more at: http://www.mdibl.org/courses/E​volution_and_Medicine/296/.Videos filmed by Sam Ellison.