Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) Metabarcoding-Datenkuratierung u. Bioinformatik Kennz18/2026/2
Core
Curating and harmonizing 16S rRNA metabarcoding sequence data to expand the Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa) into an AI-ready corpus for microbial ecology research.
Role type
Postdoctoral Researcher (Bioinformatics & Data Curation)
Builds
MiCoDa (Microbial Community Database) and related public data repositories (GBIF, ENA)
Domain
Bioinformatics, Microbial Ecology, Data Management
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
16S rRNA metabarcoding analysis, statistical modeling (mixed-effects models), high-performance computing, R, Python, workflow management, public sequence archive management (ENA/INSDC)
Preferred skills
German language, workflow management tools
Technologies
dada2, R, Python, ENA, INSDC, GBIF
Responsibilities
Compile reference datasets from mock communities and literature, automate data curation and harmonization, supervise student assistants, write scientific publications, present at conferences, communicate with European Nucleotide Archive