From markw at illuminae.com Wed Feb 8 13:02:33 2012 From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:02:33 -0800 Subject: [MOBY-dev] Graduate and PDF openings in biological informatics & semantics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Graduate Research Opportunity Biological Informatics Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP) Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (Please pass this message on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to re-post in other relevant mailing lists) I have openings for 3 Ph.D. and 1 PDF level trainee in my new laboratory at UPM, Madrid, Spain. My laboratory's research revolves around: 1) The application of ontologies to the automation of biological analyses, primarily through the automated discovery of, and correct assembly of, Web Services into analytical workflows. 2) Overcoming "the well-known knowledge acquisition bottleneck" through attempts to construct ontologies using crowd-sourcing and data-driven approaches 3) Exploring the relationship between ontologies and hypotheses, with respect to both automated in silico hypothesis evaluation and comparison, and the formalization of scientific discourse using OWL. Madrid is home to a thriving informatics research community! The laboratory will be based in the newly constructed Center for Plant Biotechnology, directly adjacent to the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid, providing excellent opportunities for collaboration with the HPC groups at that Center, as well as with the well-established Ontology Engineering Group in the Faculty of Informatics, UPM, and with bioinformatics researchers at Madrid's National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB). ...and just imagine... doing linked-data and semantic web research without privacy constraints! ;-) Please send questions, CVs, and expressions of interest to me by email: markw at illuminae.com Best wishes all! Mark -- Dr. Mark Wilkinson Associate Professor, Medical Genetics PI Biological Informatics Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver, BC, CANADA From markw at illuminae.com Wed Feb 8 18:02:33 2012 From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark) Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:02:33 -0800 Subject: [MOBY-dev] Graduate and PDF openings in biological informatics & semantics In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Graduate Research Opportunity Biological Informatics Center for Plant Biotechnology and Genomics (CBGP) Technical University of Madrid (UPM) (Please pass this message on to anyone who might be interested, and feel free to re-post in other relevant mailing lists) I have openings for 3 Ph.D. and 1 PDF level trainee in my new laboratory at UPM, Madrid, Spain. My laboratory's research revolves around: 1) The application of ontologies to the automation of biological analyses, primarily through the automated discovery of, and correct assembly of, Web Services into analytical workflows. 2) Overcoming "the well-known knowledge acquisition bottleneck" through attempts to construct ontologies using crowd-sourcing and data-driven approaches 3) Exploring the relationship between ontologies and hypotheses, with respect to both automated in silico hypothesis evaluation and comparison, and the formalization of scientific discourse using OWL. Madrid is home to a thriving informatics research community! The laboratory will be based in the newly constructed Center for Plant Biotechnology, directly adjacent to the Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid, providing excellent opportunities for collaboration with the HPC groups at that Center, as well as with the well-established Ontology Engineering Group in the Faculty of Informatics, UPM, and with bioinformatics researchers at Madrid's National Institute for Bioinformatics (INB). ...and just imagine... doing linked-data and semantic web research without privacy constraints! ;-) Please send questions, CVs, and expressions of interest to me by email: markw at illuminae.com Best wishes all! Mark -- Dr. Mark Wilkinson Associate Professor, Medical Genetics PI Biological Informatics Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St. Paul's Hospital Vancouver, BC, CANADA