We have fixed-term and permanent employment opportunities to work in our group.

Master/PhD thesis proposals

• Rearrangement scenarios with tandem duplication events
• Model inference for RNA pattern matching
• Multiple comparison of graphs applied to nonribosomal peptides

Postdoctoral position

• A one year postdoctoral position is available in the SEQUOIA research group (Lille, France), starting in autumn 2009. The work concerns noncoding RNA searching by homology. We are seeking motivate candidates holding a Ph.D. in bioinformatics, computational biology or computer science. Strong skills in algorithmics are a plus.
  
  Fast RNA homology searching. The availability of complete genomes and the development of Next Generation Sequencing technologies have led to the accumulation of raw biological data at an unprecedented scale. Among these data, noncoding RNAs are now recognized to play a major role in many cellular processes. Despite recent efforts of the bioinformatics communauty, there is still a lack of efficient computational methods to identify and analyse noncoding RNAs. SEQUOIA research group has a strong background on this topic.
  
  Goal. The research work concerns the design of models and algorithms devoted to the identification of potential noncoding RNAs in a sequence, such as a newly sequenced genome or RNA-seq data. In particular, we want to investigate novel preprocessing methods for noncoding RNA analysis. The objective is to create new indexing structures whose goal is to store genomic data and to speed up RNA motif queries on this data.
  
  More information. helene.touzet_AT_lifl.fr