Research Assistant (2 year post): Semantic Web & Biomedical Ontologist

Research Assistant (2 year post): Semantic Web & Biomedical Ontologist

DERI – National University of Ireland, Galway



The Unit for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) at the Digital Enterprise
Research Institute (DERI: http://www.deri.ie/) of the National University of
Ireland, Galway invites applications for two research assistant positions.



DERI is a leading research institute in semantic technologies that offers a
stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural research environment, excellent ties
to research-groups worldwide, close collaboration with industrial partners
and up-to-date infrastructure and resources.



The DERI HCLS group has embarked on an ambitious European FP7 project which
uses semantic web technologies to enable sharing and collaboration between
life scientists in cancer chemoprevention. Research in the DERI HCLS
research group is carried out in close collaboration with other research
units in DERI, along with other collaborating institutions and industrial
partners.



The successful candidates will have key roles in this project as DERI’s role
and experience in Linked Data is central to the technology to be used in the
project. Candidates should have at least two of the following:



   - Previous experience with Linked Data/SPARQL/Semantic Web tools
   - Previous experience with Biomedical Ontologies, in specific NCBO
   - Previous work with wet lab /bench researchers; knowledge about
   biomedical databases,  commonly used biological UI (genome browsers,
   clustering tools) and commonly used Bioinformatics tools (BLAST, CLUSTAL-W,
   etc)
   - Knowledge about deployment of web services/API/Domain specific
   languages
   - Experience with Natural Language Processing tools, preferably with
   extraction from PDF





Successful candidates are expected to have the willingness to combine formal
scientific work, design, and implementation, with hands-on evaluation with
life scientists.



Please send your application (CV, two letters of reference) in PDF format to
the email address below – by April 1st, 2011



Further details can be obtained from:



Ronan Fox

Domain for Health Care and Life Sciences

DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway

IDA Business Park,

Lower Dangan,

Galway, Ireland



ronan dot fox at deri dot org

-- 
Helena F. Deus
Post-Doctoral Researcher at DERI/NUIG
http://lenadeus.info/