NHS Elective Trainee Bioinformatician

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore's sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Bioinformatics Genomics STP trainee to join the Customer Workflows team for 6 weeks, to fulfil the elective component of the STP.

The successful candidate will join our team of Bioinformaticians and carry out a piece of development work. Potential projects include but are not limited to:

• Automated testing
• Application of real-time analysis to existing post-run workflows
• Improvements to visualisation and reporting framework

The Customer Workflows team is responsible for development and maintenance of Nextflow workflows which help our customers get the most out of their sequencing projects. We maintain a coherent set of analysis software tools for end users of ONT's sequencing platforms with a particular focus on the planning, development, testing, documentation, and deployment of analysis code.

The successful applicant will be supervised by an HCPC-registered Clinical Bioinformatician who will support completion of elective competencies.

If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider applying today!

We are based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.

Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.