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When:
Thursday, January 7, 2010 - 12:30 to 14:00
Where:
DMP 201
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Advisors: Anne Condon, Professor, Computer Science Department, UBC
Chris Thachuk, Graduate Student, Computer Science Department, UBC
Location: BETA (Bioinformatics, and Experimental and Theoretical Algorithmics) Lab, 2366 Main Mall, Point Grey Campus, UBC
Motivation:
The Human Genome Project has enabled a revolutionary step forward in understanding our genes and their function. A significant next challenge is to understand genome variation across individuals and its correlation with disease, as well as genomic mutations and rearrangements in cancerous cells. With the availability of a reference human genome sequence, current studies focus on resequencing, that is, inference of the genome of interest by alignment of millions of short reads, produced by sequencing the genome, to an available reference genome. While much work has been done on producing software capable of aligning reads to a reference, there is a growing need for software that can address the specific challenges associated with sequence data derived from cancerous tissue and from transcriptomes.
Project outline:
The goal of this project is to produce a high quality software package for next generation sequencing data alignment with a focus on the challenges of handling transcriptome derived data, as well as data from cancerous tissue. The project will explore the use of state-of-the-art text indexing techniques and string comparison algorithms, with a focus on producing high performance software.
The project will be undertaken in collaboration with researchers at the BC Cancer Research Centre and is suitable for either graduate students interested in a potential thesis topic or advanced undergraduate students interested in bioinformatics, algorithmic design, and software development in general.
Experience programming in C and/or C++ is must. Previous experience in software development projects and background in bioinformatics are also desirable but not required.
The position may be part-time (at least 10 hours per week) or full-time.
If interested, please e-mail a résumé, transcript, and short summary of any related work experience to Anne Condon. Hourly pay range for a third or fourth year undergraduate student is $17–19/hour, and for a MSc student is $25–28/hour, depending on experience.
The Ubyssey, the definitive source of news on campus, is looking for a Webmaster to improve the way their news articles are spread. The person must be fluent in HTML, CSS, and have at least a good working knowledge of PHP. This position requires working closely with editors to improve the functionality of the their website (ubyssey.ca). The successful applicant will be paid $300/month next term.
This is a great opportunity for your CPSC skills and hard work to gain exposure! To apply, please email a résumé and/or portfolio to [email protected] (Paul Bucci - Ubyssey Coordinating Editor) with the subject line “Ubyssey Application -
MusicBox Children’s Charity is a non profit registered charity dedicated to providing music lessons (e.g. choir, private lessons, etc) to children in the inner-city community. We are currently in a partnership with the RayCam Community Centre where programs are being run every Wednesday and Saturday. We are looking for a Webmaster to work with the executive team to create a website. The Webmaster will be responsible for updating, improving, managing, etc. the website.
If interested, please send Ian W. an email at [email protected] with your résumé.
Thanks,
Ian W
MusicBox Children’s Charity UBC
Position is 10 hours/week, $19.07/hr.
Duties involved: helping to develop, program and launch a web survey, assisting with online applications, and contributing to client support.
Eligibility Criteria: Must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident; undergraduate or graduate student; must be enrolled in 9 credits or more if an undergraduate—or enrolled full-time if a grad student.
Qualifications: You need to know Microsoft Office, Windows and/or Linux, have programming experience with MySQL, PHP. Familiarity with Python and/or Django an asset.
For more detailed information and application instructions, go to www.careers.ubc.ca. Click on “Work Learn and Work Study”. On next screen, click on “Search for Work Study jobs”. Then enter project #3134.