Bioinformatician: Structural Proteomics & Modelling

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); Hinxton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

30 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Relocation package

Job summary

The Velankar team at EMBL-EBI is seeking a Bioinformatician to advance FAIR infrastructure for structural interactomics and integrative modelling, connecting proteomics evidence with structural data and models.

You will develop standards, data models and interoperable tools, collaborating with international partners to enable deposition, validation and access across major proteomics and structural biology resources.

Qualifications

• PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Structural Biology, Proteomics, Computer Science or a related field.
• Familiarity with structural biology, protein structure or molecular interaction data.
• Experience working with biological data, metadata, identifiers and scientific repositories.
• Understanding of sequence, structure and functional annotations of proteins.
• Experience in scientific software development, preferably using Python.
• Experience designing or implementing data-integration workflows, APIs or data-processing pipelines.
• Familiarity with FAIR data principles, metadata standards and reproducible research practices.
• Experience with Linux environments, Git, testing and documentation practices.
• Scientific publications relevant to structural biology, bioinformatics, proteomics or biological data resources.
• Strong communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyse current XL-MS, CF-MS, AP-MS and integrative modelling workflows to define data and metadata requirements.
• Contribute to the extension and adoption of community standards for structural interactomics and integrative modelling data.
• Develop data models and interoperable software tools that connect proteomics and structural biology formats, including suitable conversion of proteomics outputs into integrative modelling representations.
• Develop and maintain tools, APIs, workflows and documentation that support standard-compliant data deposition and local validation.
• Implement approaches for cross-modality validation, identifier mapping and provenance tracking between experimental evidence, structural restraints and integrative models.
• Work with PRIDE and PDB-IHM colleagues to establish linked deposition, release and access workflows across relevant resources.
• Contribute to integrated search, visualisation and programmatic access services for structural interactomics data.
• Engage with researchers, analysis-tool developers and standards communities to support testing, adoption and further development of the infrastructure.
• Contribute to scientific publications, technical documentation, training and dissemination activities.

Skills

PhD in relevant field

Python

REST APIs

Git

Data integration

FAIR data principles

Linux environments

Documentation

Scientific publications

Education

PhD in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology/Structural Biology/Proteomics/CS

Tools

Python

Git

REST APIs

Job description

The Velankar team at EMBL-EBI is seeking a Bioinformatician to advance FAIR infrastructure for structural interactomics and integrative modelling, connecting proteomics evidence with structural data and models.

You will develop standards, data models and interoperable tools, collaborating with international partners to enable deposition, validation and access across major proteomics and structural biology resources.