Life Technologies is looking for a Senior Staff Scientist – Bioinformatics in Carlsbad, CA. The post states, “Life Technologies is seeking candidates with a background and experience in bioinformatics software technologies and products design, development and support for molecular biology, genomics and synthetic biology. The candidate will employ expertise in bioinformatics, data analysis, biological insight, and software engineering to bring an engineering perspective to the practice of molecular biology, in order to promote the newly developing field of synthetic biology. The ability to communicate with customers, lead and manage projects, design, test, document, and communicate results to diverse audiences are important aspects of this role.” Read more

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Stanford University is looking for a Web UI and Backend Server Developer in Palo Alto, CA: “Stanford University is the home for a national center to apply advances in computing to improve the effectiveness of biomedical research and health care. The user-facing part of our center is primarily an open-source web portal for collecting, categorizing, and applying medical and biological terminologies in innovative ways (http://bioportal.bioontology.org). In addition, we provide programmatic access to this information to allow others to build upon our technology. One of the applications of this system provides search of biomedical literature and clinical records that is much more effective than has previously been possible.” Read more

Life Technologies is looking for a Staff Scientist of Bioinformatics in Foster City, CA: “We are  seeking to recruit a  computational biologist to contribute to the development of a knowledge discovery environment  to enable genome-based medicine. This individual will develop and apply pathway analysis, semantic technology, and system biology methods and tools to integrate disparate biological knowledge with full genome and transcriptome sequencing data form patient’s germline and cancer tumors genomes. Working closely with customers and collaborators, the candidate will be responsible for developing data mining strategies for inferring disease pathways affected by inherited and somatic genetic variants and alterations.” Read more

According to a recent article, “A new lightweight web service interface for accessing massive amounts of life science research data across multiple public and private domains has been developed by researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institute. Through the powerful RIKEN Scientists’ Networking System (SciNetS), the service provides a secure, flexible and light weight interface to millions of data records and their network of semantic relationships, ushering in a new era of collaboration, analysis and information-sharing for life science research and applied innovation.” Read more

Life Technologies is seeking a Senior Bioinformatic Applications Scientist/Software Developer in Carlsbad, CA: “Life Technologies is seeking candidates with a background and experience in bioinformatics software technologies and products design, development and support for molecular biology, genomics and synthetic biology. The candidate will employ expertise in bioinformatics, data analysis, biological insight, and software engineering to bring an engineering perspective to the practice of molecular biology, in order to promote the newly developing field of synthetic biology.” Read more

MD Anderson team chosen to help navigate Cancer Genome Atlas EurekAlert (press release) Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Jonas Almeda, Ph.D., is a leading expert in semantic web, a flexible database infrastructure that’s … and more »

Executive Summary

Chemistry is an important and high-value vertical in the modern world and the "semantification" of chemistry will be crucial for further rapid innovation not only in the discipline itself, but also in related areas such as drug discovery, medicine and materials design. This article provides a short overview over the current technological state of the art in semantic chemistry and also discusses some obstancles, which have, so far, impeded the widespread uptake of chemistry in the domain.

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Palm oil is a multi-billion dollar industry, yet to date no attempt has been made for complex knowledge modeling within the Palm Oil industry. As oil palm plantation industries contain numerous changing conditions and since relevant decision making parameters are dynamic as well, an intelligent Decision Support System (DSS) that is context sensitive, environment specific and localized for the user is needed. Our proposed solution empowers the end-users through semantic and ontology development methods, where the involvement of domain experts and end-users drive the application development.

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