[DAS] DAS developer position at Sanger

[Jonathan Warren]

Senior Ensembl Web Developer

DAS Support

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Ref: 80584

Salary from £27316 to £37690 pa dependent on experience

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is a world leader in genomic  
research, with an expanding scientific programme dedicated to  
understanding gene function in health & disease.

We are seeking a highly motivated senior Perl web developer with XML  
web services experience to develop and maintain DAS infrastructure for  
the Ensembl project, along with developing intuitive web displays for  
DAS data.

The position is in the Ensembl web team working on the Ensembl sites (http://www.ensembl.org/ 
). The scope of the role includes all aspects of DAS technology from  
client and server development to graphical display.

The role requires interactions with members of the Ensembl groups  
based at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI) and the European  
Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), the WTSI web team and the external DAS  
community.

Essential Skills

In order to fulfil this role you will:

require a high level of competence in the Perl programming language  
with evidence of a high level of experience of relevant web  
development skills;
have a scientific degree;
have successfully created interfaces that link with and display data  
from servers delivering XML-based content into a web environment;
have the communication skills required to explain complex information  
in simple terms to a diverse audience.
Ideal Skills

knowledge of DAS protocols and technologies;
experience and understanding of genomic scale bioinformatics;
have an ability to use productively the MySQL relational database;
experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
Other information

The WTSI is a world leader in genome sequencing and bioinformatics.  
The Ensembl project (http://www.ensembl.org/) is a collaboration  
between the WTSI and the EBI and provides to the scientific community  
annotation for approximately 50 genomes. Ensembl is the largest user  
of DAS technology worldwide, both for providing our annotation data  
and displaying data from external servers. The service we provide is  
used by thousands of scientists worldwide to help in their research.

This position is for a fixed term of 18 months.

Benefits

Salary range £27316 to £37690 pa dependent on experience

The Institute has excellent purpose built facilities on the Genome  
Campus, Hinxton on the outskirts of Cambridge. We offer a  
comprehensive range of benefits including a final salary pension  
scheme and excellent on-site facilities. Further details can be found  
on our website https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk,

To submit your CV and apply for this job please go to https://jobs.sanger.ac.uk 
, to register and apply on line.

The closing date for applications is 26 March 2010






Jonathan Warren
Senior Developer and DAS coordinator









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