Bioinformatics Scientist - Junior Project Manager
Lausanne Area, Switzerland
I lead the development of Bgee (http://bgee.org/), under the supervision of Prof. Marc Robinson-Rechavi, at the University of Lausanne. This work is notably funded by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. Bgee is a database to perform high-throughput and automated comparisons of gene expression patterns between species. We have the aim of producing a database useful to disciplines such as comparative genomics, Evo-Devo, or transcriptome studies, whilst providing an improved integration of homology and related concepts into bioinformatics through ontologies and ontology tools.Project management: - leader of the Bgee team (developer, biocurator)- provide project vision, standards, roadmap- trained in Project Management through the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (course provided by Iteral management SA)Bioinformatics: - development of the Bgee pipeline to store and perform high-throughput analyses of transcriptomics data of various types, notably Illumina RNA-Seq and Affymetrix microarray: use of Java, perl, R, Bioconductor, Ensembl API, Intermine, etc.Ontology development: - participation in the development of the Uberon ontology: use of OWL2, OWL API, owltools. - developer of the repository of developmental stage ontologies: http://developmental-stage-ontologies.googlecode.com/- developer of the similarity annotations, used to define evolutionary relations between anatomical entities described in the Uberon ontology: http://sourceforge.net/p/bgee/- developer of the confidence code ontology: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/bgee/code/trunk/release/ontologies/conf_information.oboApplication development: - development of the Bgee application: use of Java 7, Maven, MySQL, unit/regression testing, best practices in programming. I love effective design patterns.- development of the Bgee database: use of MySQL, big data optimizations- committer to owltools, a tool to manipulate ontologies - developer of log4jbc-log4j2, a JDBC logging library