Bioinformatics Scientist, Genomic Reference Catalogues

KU - SCIENCE - SNM; København; On-site; DKK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute CAEG seeks a Staff Scientist or Research Consultant in Bioinformatics to lead development of large-scale genomic reference catalogues. You will acquire and curate genomes from public sources, build reproducible workflows, and ensure high-quality, traceable catalogues for environmental and ancient DNA research.

You will work with a diverse team of bioinformaticians, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, contributing to software and infrastructure

Qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, genomics, data science, or a related field.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Unix shell scripting.
• Experience working with genomic sequence data and FASTA-based resources.
• Experience developing automated and reproducible computational workflows.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Familiarity with HPC environments and queue-management systems such as Slurm.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in interdisciplinary teams.
• Strong written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Identify and acquire genomes and other relevant FASTA resources from public repositories and scientific initiatives.
• Build, curate, document, version, and continuously expand large-scale genomic reference catalogues.
• Develop automated workflows for resource discovery, download, processing, quality control, and catalogue construction.
• Assess sequence and assembly quality and identify contamination, redundancy, taxonomic inconsistencies, and other potential problems.
• Curate, adapt, and develop small bioinformatic programs where existing tools are insufficient.
• Process very large sequence collections using high-performance computing systems.
• Collaborate with researchers to ensure that the catalogues meet the scientific needs of environmental DNA, ancient DNA, metagenomic, and biodiversity research.
• Contribute to software development, computational analyses, workflows, and other activities within the informatics group.

Skills

Python

Unix shell scripting

Git

Snakemake

Nextflow

HPC (Slurm)

English (written and spoken)

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

Master's degree or PhD in bioinformatics/computer science/genomics/data science

Tools

Git

Snakemake

Nextflow

Slurm

Job description

University of Copenhagen’s Globe Institute CAEG seeks a Staff Scientist or Research Consultant in Bioinformatics to lead development of large-scale genomic reference catalogues. You will acquire and curate genomes from public sources, build reproducible workflows, and ensure high-quality, traceable catalogues for environmental and ancient DNA research.

You will work with a diverse team of bioinformaticians, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists, contributing to software and infrastructure