Computational Biologist for the Genome Reference Informatics Team

Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanitys greatest challenges.

We are seeking a talented Computational Biologist to join the at Wellcome Sanger Institute on a 2 year contract contributing to the curation of genome assemblies to produce high quality chromosome-scale references.

About the Role:

The Tree of Life project is generating genome assemblies for thousands of species. We need you to analyse and improve the resulting assemblies to generate the best possible outcome for use by the scientific community to support exciting science all around the globe.

You will be responsible for:

The improvement of automated genome assemblies through manual curation using bespoke software and tools. In addition, you will feedback lessons learned from the curation process to the teams generating assembli...