What are the responsibilities and job description for the Research Programmer - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology position at illinois?
Duties & Responsibilities
- The programmer’s responsibility will be integrating the Enzyme Function Initiative (EFI - https://efi.igb.illinois.edu/) web tools into the KBase data science platform hosted at the U.S. Department of Energy. The EFI web tools are composed of a UI frontend and a Perl-based back-end. The programmer will interact with the project’s senior research programmer to develop solutions in appropriate scripting languages for integrating the back-end with KBase. Additional components will involve writing code that produces results and reports that are available offline and downloadable. Innovative thinking will be required to merge the EFI tools into the KBase workflow. The KBase API is well-documented, but also imposes significant limitations on applications and how those applications can be executed. Interest in taking ownership of this project is key to success. Collaboration with external developers will be required (travel is not anticipated at this time).
- The programmer will also be responsible for providing support for additional databases in the EFI tools. Opening the EFI tools to the KBase API will provide access to an enhanced set of sequences and these need to be supported by the tools. Other database programming, such as downloading and synchronizing data, developing new databases, and improving existing workflows and optimizing databases will be involved.
- In addition to the above, the programmer may assist in the following: Exploration of new approaches to current bioinformatics processes, such as the use of sequence embedded vectors and machine learning, Improvement of web-based user interfaces and developing new applications using JavaScript, Improving software deployment workflow
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