Postdoctoral Associate Computational Biology

Postdoctoral Associate Computational Biology

The Friedberg Lab is seeking to fill a postdoc position  in the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation. The Friedberg Lab is located at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. The lab is equipped with high performance computers, including GPU machines suitable for machine learning. The successful candidate will be offered a competitive salary. Applications accepted only via the Iowa State University job site. The successful candidate must have excellent bioinformatics programming skills.   More on the Friedberg Lab can be found here: https://iddo-friedberg.net/

Critical Assessment of Function Annotation: The Critical Assessment of Function Annotation or CAFA is an experiment designed to provide large-scale assessment of computational methods that are dedicated to predicting protein function, using a time challenge. The successful candidate will need to write and implement assessment algorithms for the Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA), as well as assess the methods competing in the 4th CAFA challenge which will take place late 2019-2020. The postdoc will gain experience in  working with cutting-edge machine learning software in bioinformatics, produce robust software for the ongoing CAFA work, and will interact with a large and diverse international community of students and researchers participating in CAFA.  They will be expected to manage the project both technically and in working with the CAFA community.
More information of CAFA, including publications is available at: https://www.biofunctionprediction.org/cafa/

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