J. Craig Venter Inst are looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer:
The position requires a developer for deploying bioinformatics applications on cloud environments (EC2, Eucalyptus, Openstack), mostly coding against the cloud APIs but also having a strong foundation in Linux sysadmin skills in order to maintain JCVI’s private cloud cluster, and wiliness to join and contribute new ideas as part of a research team.
This year’s London Perl Workshop will be held on Saturday 12th November at Westminster University.
It’s free to attend and you can sign up here: http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2011/index.html
The schedule isn’t up yet, but an update sent to the london.pm mailing list promises introductory workshops for programmers of other languages, updates on new Perl developments for current Perl programmers all the way up to advanced talks from world-renowned Perl experts.
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September’s BioGeeks tech meet will be on Thursday 22nd September at University College London, Bloomsbury Campus, from 6pm.
Help advertise the meeting, put up a poster!
Exploring Taverna and the community workflows
Madhu Donepudi, Eagle Genomics
An introductory tutorial covering bioinformatics workflows using Taverna workflow management system (http://www.taverna.org.uk/) and on how to avoid ‘re-inventing the workflow’ by using community developed/published services.
When?
Thursday 22nd September
6pm onwards.
Where?
University College London,
Engineering, Room 1.02
Malet Place
London, WC1E 6BT
As usual after the talk, we will go together for a few drinks
7:30 – Print Room Cafe’, UCL Bloomsbury Campus, South Junction
The lovely Kaitlin & Matt from SameAs are organising another nerdy pub quiz on Friday 2nd September at 7pm in Juno in Hoxton.
http://sameas.us/events/fringe_quiz
If anyone fancies forming a Biogeeks team, give me a shout.
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