Nottingham University
|THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM |
|Role Profile Form |
Job Title: Research Associate Bioinformatics/Image Analysis – Two Posts
School/Department: School of Computer Science
Salary: £28,695 - £37,394 per annum, depending on skills and experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance.
Job Family and Level: Research and Teaching Level 4 (Appointment will be Level 4 Career training grade where an appointment is made before PhD has been completed)
Contract Status: Fixed-term ends 30 June 2016
Hours of Work: Full Time, 36.25h per week
Location: Jubilee Campus
Reporting to: Professor Tony Pridmore
Purpose of the Role:
The iPlant Collaborative is a major initiative aimed at creating a software platform that enables a large community of plant biologists to make use of advanced computational tools for research purposes. The University’s School of Computer Science and Centre for Plant Integrative Biology have developed a set of image analysis methods and software tools that have proven effective in extracting quantitative descriptions of plant organs from confocal laser microscope, colour and X-ray Computed Tomography images The purpose of this post is to integrate these tools into the iPlant environment to substantially widened user base and a step-change in the impact that bioimage analysis research and tool development at Nottingham has on plant science both nationally and internationally.
| |Main Responsibilities |
|1. |Provide image analysis expertise and implementation skills to maximise the potential of existing bioimage analysis tools, making them |
| |both valuable to and easily usable by a large set of users via iPlant. |
|2. |Re-implement existing code in C or C++ to make best use of the iPlant framework and increase computational efficiency. |
|3. |Interact with iPlant staff to define interfaces between their software framework and Nottingham’s contributions. |
|4. |Support the parallelisation of tools inside the iPlant framework as required. |
|5. |Perform rigorous tests and evaluations of computational tools. |
|6. |Contribute to user interfaces and software documentation. |
|7. |Maintain close contacts with colleagues and with relevant managers, sharing expertise and information to ensure that developments are |
| |co-ordinated, and that a coherent development and service environment is maintained. |
|8. |Organise and contribute to internal and external workshops on the use of the iPlant tools for researchers and graduate students |
|9. |Write up research work for publication and/or contribute to the dissemination at national/international conferences, resulting in |
| |successful research outputs. |
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications & Experience
| |Essential |Desirable |
|Qualifications/ Education |PhD in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, or a related area | |
| | | |
|Skills/Training |Ability to develop software in C/C++ |Experience of image processing, analysis and/or |
| | |computer vision research |
| |Ability to develop software in at least one of Perl, MATLAB,|Experience of parallel computing and/or interface |
| |and Python |design |
| | | |
| |Basic knowledge of image processing and analysis | |
| | | |
| |Ability to work independently and as part of an | |
| |interdisciplinary team | |
| | | |
| |Effective communication (oral and written) skills | |
|Experience |Some practical experience of applying the specialist skills,| |
| |approaches and techniques required for the role. | |
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|Statutory/Legal | | |
Decision Making
i) Taken independently by the role holder;
• Software design/structure
• Design of any interfaces and parallelisation strategies required
ii) Taken in collaboration with others;
|Choice of software tools and methods used |
|Addition of new and extension of existing bioimage analysis methods and tools |
iii) Referred to the appropriate line manager by the role holder
|Wider strategy of our research and development work |
|Purchasing decisions |
Additional Information
|The Centre for Plant Integrative Biology (cpib.ac.uk) is an interdisciplinary unit bringing together biologists, computer scientists, |
|mathematicians and engineers to address fundamental problems in plant and crop science. The School of Computer Science, and particularly the |
|Computer Vision Laboratory, has been closely involved since CPIB’s inception, addressing a range of image analysis and computer vision problems |
|associated with the recovery of quantitative two and three-dimensional data from various microscope, colour and X-ray computed tomography images |
|of plants. This work has resulted in the production of a range of computational methods and associated software tools, which have been made |
|available to and well-received by the plant and crop science communities. These tools and methods underpin a range of research projects and are |
|central to the operation of the University’s recently opened Hounsfield Facility, a unique resource built around a set of X-ray micro-Computed |
|Tomography scanners and associated automation. |
|These posts provide opportunities to develop our bioimage analysis capability further, significantly increasing its power and uptake by |
|integrating it into the US-developed iPlant environment. The iPlant Collaborative is a major initiative aimed at creating a software platform that|
|enables a wide community of plant biologists to make use of advanced computational tools in order to generate and analyse large data sets. The |
|role holders will join an established and highly regarded interdisciplinary team to help build the first iPlant node outside the US, populating it|
|with appropriately implemented and modified versions of Nottingham’s bioimage analysis tools. |
|Depending on the tool this may involve adapting the core methods used, re-coding in a faster language (C or C++), parallelising computations using|
|iPlant’s framework, adapting the tool to iPlant interfaces, as well as testing and following up on user feedback. The outcome of this project will|
|be a substantially widened user base and a step-change in the impact that bioimage analysis research and tool development at Nottingham has on |
|plant science both nationally and internationally. |
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