The Center for Phage Technology is looking for aspiring bioinformaticians to do 491 research! We’re one of the only phage labs in the country with a strong focus on creating novel tools for analysis of phages. In the past year alone we’ve added over 100 new tools to our arsenal, all of which have been publicly released for the benefit of the scientific community.
During this project you’ll become comfortable writing python through our feedback-intensive mentoring process. On the bioinformatics side, you’ll gain skills in command line bioinformatics tools, and all the basic linux commands you will need to succeed as a bioinformatician.
No prior programming experience is required, just the ability to think logically and desire to solve problems and puzzles. However, prior programming experience will let you attack larger and more complex problems which are more likely to be published in some form.
First semester projects for those new to programming often involves writing small utility scripts and integrating those with our pipelines. Second semester projects/more experienced programmers can move on to the more complex projects like adding large features to existing tools, development of novel tools, development of novel visualizations of datasets.
Contact Curtis Ross to get more information or apply. Please submit a résumé with your email.