[ome-users] Staff position at EBI to work on EM in OME (was: .mrc file import into omero)

[Christoph Best]

derobill <derobill at mpi-cbg.de> writes:
> Archiving our large data is a key feature as TB of tomogram are saved
> on our file server. To find back a not well tagged tomogram can be a
> deadly job. It would be nice to offer inside Omero a possibility to
> stream (or download) a movie to preview the large 3D data, to allow a
> fast scan without download on the local drive + upload in the RAM to
> open them, that is really missing in my today tools. That would be an
> additional wish, you may consider to build, additionally to the
> possibility of uploading .mrc file.

This could be something like Google maps where you can browse slices of
tomograms on the server. Speaking of this, EMDB has currently a staff
position open to work on projects like these:

  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/jobs.html

Sorry for the off-topic post, but we would be happy if you could post
the flier:

  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/jobad.pdf

More details below.
Thanks!
-Christoph

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Dear colleagues:

EMDB, the Electron Microscopy Data Bank at the European Bioinformatics
Institute in Cambridge, England, has a staff position opening for a

  Scientific Software Engineer (Image Databases)

We are looking for someone with very good software engineering skills
(target platform is GNU/Linux and Mac OSX, primary languages Java and
Python, focus on web-based interfaces and distributed
applications/grids/clouds), a background in image analysis/bioimage
informatics, structural biology, or (bio-)physics, a thorough grasp of
mathematical and statistical algorithms, and a track record of
developing and maintaining scientific software.

The post is funded by BBSRC in a joint project with OME, the Open
Microscopy Environment (www.openmicroscopy.org) group at the University
of Dundee. EMDB is operated jointly with Rutgers University, New Jersey,
and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, under NIH funding, so there
will be plenty of opportunity for international collaboration.  EMDB is
part of the PDBe team at EBI.

Example topics to work on would be to integrate electron microscopy data
sets into OME, provide better tools for the visualization and analysis
of large complex data sets, develop tools for statistical assessment of
image quality, and figure out how to use the emerging grid/cloud
computing infrastructures for storage and computation of EMDB data.

More information about EMDB is at

  http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb

Feel free to contact me directly if you want to know more.

The post is an EMBL staff position with an initial contract for three
years. Details are in the job posting at

  http://www.embl.de/aboutus/jobs/jobs_embl_ebi_hinxton/2009/09_049_ebi

Please not that applications should be sent to

  <applications at ebi.ac.uk>

Thanks!
-Christoph
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| Dr Christoph Best      <best at ebi.ac.uk>           http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~best
| Project Leader Electron Microscopy Data Bank, PDB Europe
| European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK             +44-1223-492649