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 & data curation)
Builds
A public, AI-tailored dataset of microbial community sequences
Domain
Microbial ecology, bioinformatics, data management
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, English (fluent), German (basic)
Responsibilities
Assembling reference datasets from mock communities, investigating technical impacts on data comparability, automating data curation workflows, supervising student assistants, communicating with the European Nucleotide Archive, publishing scientific papers
Seniority
Postdoctoral researcher (PhD required)