Positions in BIOCOMPUTING

[Soren Brunak]

Positions in BIOCOMPUTING  

at the Danish Center for Biological Sequence  Analysis,  Department  of
Physical Chemistry, The Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby). 

A number of pre- and post-doctoral positions are available at the newly
formed Center for Biological Sequence Analysis. They have a duration of
one, two and three years, starting late 1993 or early 1994. The  center
is funded by a  five-year  grant  from  the  Danish  National  Research
Foundation and conducts an  active  research  program  in  biomolecular
sequence  and  structure  analysis  with  emphasis  on  novel  adaptive
computational  strategies.  The  Technical  University  of  Denmark  is
situated in Lyngby just outside Copenhagen. 

The center offers employment to researchers with a background primarily
in the natural sciences, molecular  biology,  genetics,  chemistry  and
physics. We seek individuals with additional competence and interest in
areas of computer science, but not with this area as the  main  subject
of expertise.  Priority  will  be  given  to  younger  scientists  with
experience in some of the  following  areas  (in  alphabetical  order):
experimental molecular  biology,  information  theory  and  statistics,
mathematical analysis, neural computation, protein folding, physics  of
computation and complex systems, and sequence analysis. 

In a wide range of projects the center collaborates with  national  and
foreign groups using novel adaptive computational methods many of which
have received attention in the biocomputing context only recently.  The
center is characterized by the use of new approaches both regarding the
algorithmic aspect of the simulation methods as  well  as  the  use  of
advanced hardware. A wide  range  of  parallel  and  cluster  computing
environments is available locally at the center; a nearby supercomputer
center offers easy access to CRAY and  Connection  Machine  facilities.
Among the  research  topics  are  pre--mRNA  splicing,  recognition  of
vertebrate  promoters,  RNA  folding,  protein  structure   prediction,
proteolytic processing of  polyproteins,  signal  peptide  recognition,
phylogenies, global multiple sequence alignment and dedicated  sequence
analysis hardware. The results are evaluated through intensive exchange
with experimentalists. 

For further information, feel free to contact us at the address below. 

Applicants should send their resumes to

Soren Brunak
Center director 
Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
Department of Physical Chemistry
The Technical University of Denmark
Building 206
DK-2800 Lyngby
Denmark

Tel: +45-42882222, ext. 2477
Fax: +45-45934808
Email: brunak at cbs.dth.dk