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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light"">Postdoctoral positions and PhD student position in computational and systems biology</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Calibri Light"">Nanyang Technological University, Singapore</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">Two postdoctoral positions and one PhD student position in a project investigating missing and spurious links and labels of molecular networks are available at the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore (</span><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">www.ntu.edu.sg</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">). The project will begin in January 2017 and is led by Professor
Jagath Rajapakse in the School of Computer Science and Engineering.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">Protein-interaction networks are widely used in inferring disease mechanisms and in drug discovery. Missing and spurious links and labels of PIN are challenging and undermine
the applications. The aim of this project is to develop computational techniques and tools for the prediction of missing and spurious links and labels by mapping the hierarchical modularity of protein interaction networks and gene ontology. Applications of
the techniques to predicting biological pathways, prioritizing disease targets, and detecting hierarchies of protein complexes in diseases such as psoriasis, leprosy and cancer will be explored.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">Postdoc 1</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light""> will research on various models of protein interaction networks, and their applications in predicting
missing links, extracting network modules, the hierarchical structure of protein complexes, and prioritizing proteins. A potential candidate will have background and experience in biological network analysis, probabilistic models, or machine learning.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">Postdoc 2</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light""> will investigate the graphical structure and missing labels of gene ontology, and the applications to
inferring biological pathways from multiple biological data sources. A potential candidate will have experience in biological network analysis, bioinformatics, ontologies, or text mining.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">The PhD student</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light""> will work on the hierarchical modular architecture of protein interaction networks and mapping
between the hierarchical structures of PINs and gene ontologies, and their applications to cancer.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">For postdoctoral positions, PhD in a related field is required. For more details and applications, please send your curriculum vitae to Professor Jagath Rajapakse (</span><a href="mailto:asjagath@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">asjagath@ntu.edu.sg</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri Light"">).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Jagath C. Rajapakse, PhD, FIEEE</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Professor of Computer Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">School of Computer Science and Engineering</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Nanyang Technological University</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">N4-2a06 50 Nanyang Ave</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Singapore 639798</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">Tel: 67905802, Fax: 67926559</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black">www.ntu.edu.sg/home/asjagath</span></p>
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