Galaxy is a software framework that (a) enables researchers to store, analyze, visualize and share genomic data and (b) provides genomic tool developers with the ability to deploy their tools within a complete analysis framework. Thousands of researchers worldwide use Galaxy on a daily basis. Galaxy is an open source project committed to the openness of scientific enterprise and is free for all.
We do work in Distributed and high-perfomance computing, visualization, informatics and data analysis and integration, and applied bioinformatics, and more.
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As a person who reads PhD applications and works with graduate students, bullshit.
I care a little about your GRE scores, it is a filter, you need some kind of standardized comparable. Congrats on getting in the 99th percentile (that's expected). I don't care much about your GPA. I might look at what classes you took. I will probably look at your reference letters briefly. They might be from professors, they might not. I don't care. I love the fact that you have some startup or industry experience, you are slightly more likely to actually know how to get things done.
The very first thing I read is your cover letter, then straight to your research statement which I will read in great detail. The only thing I care about is do you have a passion for research, are you likely to be successful at it.
At most research institutions in most areas of science, we have to pay our graduate students stipend and tuition, either right away or after a year. This is a damn good incentive to get students in who are going to do great research.
All I care about is getting great researchers in the door and (eventually, hopefully) into my lab. So, my advice: focus on your research statement. Tailor it to the department your are applying to, talk about the research they are doing there. But, have your own agenda. At least know what research areas you are passionate about.
Working for the Galaxy team provides a rare opportunity to perform research and to develop software at the leading edge of life sciences, genomics, data intensive computing, and big data analytics.
We develop Galaxy, a platform that enables researchers to store, analyze, visualize and share genomic data; and provides genomic tool developers with the ability to deploy their tools within a complete analysis framework. Thousands of researchers worldwide use Galaxy on a daily basis. Galaxy is an open source project committed to the openness of scientific enterprise and is free for all.
Positions are available both at Emory University, Atlanta GA (in the lab of PI James Taylor) and Penn State University, State College, PA (in the lab of PI Anton Nekrutenko).
Software Engineers
We have a wide variety of active projects, current areas of expertise sought include:
- Web-based visualization and visual analytics. We are building novel interactive visualizations of next-generation sequence data that leverage cutting edge web technologies.
- Informatics and data analysis and integration. We build and use tools to analyze large datasets generated by high-throughput sequencing of DNA to understand genomes and genome function.
- Distributed computing and systems programming. We are engaged in the development of workflow systems, cloud computing based solutions, and other projects involving high performance and data intensive computing.
- Bioinformatics application areas such as re-sequencing, de novo assembly, metagenomics, transcriptome analysis and epigenetics.
Regardless of your areas of expertise we seek talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team. Galaxy is developed in an academic research environment, and members of the Galaxy team work closely with researchers on projects at the leading edge of data-intensive biology.
Galaxy is written in Python, but also makes substantial use of JavaScript, canvas, and other modern web technologies. Many of the analysis components of Galaxy are performance critical, and are implemented in C and other languages as well.
Postdoctoral Scholars
We are also recruiting postdoctoral scholars with expertise in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Our work on Galaxy is driven by our biological and biomedical research programs, and we are interested in hearing from potential postdocs with a wide variety of research interests:
- Computational and HCI research on both the development of analysis and data management tools, and the development of novel user interfaces and interactive visualizations for analyzing large-scale data.
- Distributed and high-performance computing for data intensive science, specifically genomics.
- Vertebrate functional and evolutionary genomics, particularly through the development of novel machine learning, data mining, and data integration methods incorporating genomic sequence and experimental data.
- Numerous areas of biology including genomic and epigenomic mechanisms of gene regulation, the role of transcription factors and chromatin structure in global gene expression, development, and differentiation.
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