Bioinformatiker (m/w/d)
Core
Curating and harmonizing 16S rRNA metabarcoding sequence data to expand the Microbial Community Database (MiCoDa) into a comprehensive, AI-ready corpus for microbial ecology research.
Role type
Research scientist (bioinformatics)
Builds
A public, AI-tailored dataset of microbial community sequences
Domain
Microbial ecology / Bioinformatics
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
16S rRNA metabarcoding analysis, public sequence archive management, statistical modeling, high-performance computing, R, Python, workflow management
Preferred skills
Mixed models, German language
Technologies
dada2, ENA, INSDC, R, Python
Responsibilities
Assemble reference datasets from mock communities and literature; investigate technical factors affecting dataset comparability; automate data curation and harmonization; supervise a student assistant; communicate with the European Nucleotide Archive; publish scientific papers and present at conferences