The lab's growing - the new space opened in November - and we're starting to get settled in. Now we're looking for a scientific software engineer and a web portal engineer to join the group.
The scientific software engineer will play key roles in the HMMER and Infernal projects, including optimization, parallelization …
Without getting into identifiable details, here's what's happening so far in a search I'm co-chairing for the Harvard FAS Center for Systems Biology, together with Sharad Ramanathan, with some thoughts on how this process works.
We got 182 applications. The applicants are remarkably strong, which is great. I thought that …
Construction on the new laboratory here at Harvard is starting to look like it might actually get done. They're projecting our move-in date to be the first week of November. I've been meeting with prospective rotation students and postdoc candidates, even though we still have no place to put anyone …
hmmer.org is moving off of Janelia tonight, into the great cloud. You may see some flakiness as DNS nameservers update.
Harvard's FAS Center for Systems Biology has opened a search for a new tenure-track faculty memberat the assistant professor level. Sharad Ramanathan and I are the co-chairs for the search committee.
From the ad:
The Center emphasizes quantitative approaches to fundamental problems in biology. It aims to foster interactions …
HMMER web servers were officially launched today at the EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Cambridge UK. You can read an EBI press release here. This marks the completion of the pilot HMMER server project at Janelia Farm and its transition to the EBI. All of this has been led …
The HMMER dev team is happy to announce a bugfix release of HMMER3.1, release 3.1 beta 2, aka 3.1b2. Following Google's ineffable lead in having perpetual beta test periods, 3.1 has been in beta test now for two years. When we said before that 3.1 …
I've been thinking about how we do "bioinformatics" in experimental biology, and I had the opportunity to talk about it recently. The following is the transcript of a keynote address I gave at Janelia's meeting on High Throughput Sequencing for Neuroscience last weekend.
It's a privilege to be speaking …
In genetics, cryptic genetic variation means that a genome can contain mutations whose phenotypic effects are invisible because they are suppressed or buffered, but under rare conditions they become visible and subject to selection pressure.
In software code, engineers sometimes also face the nightmare of a bug in one routine …
In July 2015, our laboratory will move to Harvard University. I've accepted an offer to join Harvard's faculty in two departments: Molecular & Cellular Biology (in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences), and Applied Mathematics (in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences). The laboratory will be on the first floor …