Jobs
Open positions with the Eco-Flow initiative.
Workflow developer and advocate
- Location
- UCL, London
- Salary
- Up to spine point 25 (6b): £34,605–£39,980
- Contract
- 2 years (full time)
- Funded by
- BBSRC — Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund
- Goal
- Building a bioinformatics ecosystem for agri-ecologists
- Start date
- Between May 2024 – August 2024
- Requirements
- Undergraduate degree (Master's / PhD preferred)
- Deadline
- 21st May 2024
Summary
Omics approaches are revolutionising all aspects of the biosciences, including agriculture and food production. The BBSRC recognises this and the critical role that agri-ecologists play in mitigating these challenges. Yet this community is at risk of falling through the omics gap, their potential curtailed by a mismatch between the productivity of agri-ecologists and the bioinformatics skills and resources they need to analyse their data.
Our project supports this community, so UK agri-ecologists can contribute to workflow assembly, use our user-friendly bioinformatics pipelines, and quickly get the results they need to power their science. We use Nextflow, which provides intuitive, seamless 'plug-and-play' modular platforms — delivering pipelines that are state-of-the-art, reproducible and scalable.
Main roles
Working within the agri-ecology community, you will liaise with project partners and help them build Nextflow pipelines to process their data. You'll monitor and address GitHub issues and feature requests to continually improve the workflows, and be fully engaged with nf-core, writing pipelines using best practice. You'll help teach basic Nextflow courses and advanced topics (with the Co-I) every six months across the UK, and help organise events.
Travel
The role involves multiple trips to Seqera Labs, Barcelona for summits and workshops, plus six-monthly trips to UK universities to jointly run training sessions.
Ideal candidate
Someone who loves to write Nextflow and is a problem solver, comfortable working with many end-users through GitHub and working well in a team.