Details: Category: News; Published: 05 October 2022

We are announcing a position as Computer Scientist (m/f/d). The position (65%) is limited for a time period of one year and can be filled immediately.

The Borstel Research Center is an internationally renowned research institute, financed by the Federal Government and the State of Schleswig-Holstein. Our central task is research and patient care in the field of respiratory diseases. We operate both basic research infrastructures and a medical clinic. Our goal is to improve existing methods for the detection, prevention and treatment of lung diseases and to develop new, innovative therapeutic approaches.

Job Description

The project is dedicated towards further development of informatics tools for lipidomics research in the frame work of the Lipidomics Informatics for Life Sciences (LIFS – https://lifs-tools.org). The applicant is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of software solutions provided by the consortia with a focus on systematic lipidome comparisons. The applicant will further support the implementation of a lipidome resource by supporting data curation and customize the LIFS workflow.

Your Qualification

MSc, BSc in informatics, bioinformatics or computer sciences
Experience in programming Python, R and Shiny
Experience multivariate data analysis and statistics
Experience in cheminformatics would be beneficial
Good communication skills in spoken and written English language

Our Offer

Your new job is hosted in a top class research centre close to Hamburg
Personal atmosphere and support
Payment according to TVöD-VKA incl. all benefits usually offered in the public sector
Family-friendly working conditions and flexible working hours as well as home office arrangements
Childcare centre and workplace health promotion
Possibility to start doctoral studies in cooperation with Prof. Andrew Torda (Universität Hamburg)

Please see the offical announcement for more details:

Details: Category: News; Published: 08 June 2022

Goslin 2.0

Thanks to all the readers of Analytical Chemistry, our software package Goslin 2.0 was rated under the top 10 (1093 views) of the most read articles in Analytical Chemistry.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05430

Details: Category: News; Published: 14 April 2022

Goslin 2.0

The next version of GOSLIN is there, supporting the updated lipid nomenclature and new lipid classes! Goslin is the first grammar-based computational library for the recognition/parsing and normalization of lipid names following the hierarchical lipid shorthand nomenclature. The new version Goslin 2.0 implements the latest nomenclature and adds an additional grammar to recognize systematic IUPAC-IUB fatty acyl names as stored, e.g., in the LIPID MAPS database and is perfectly suited to update lipid names in LIPID MAPS or HMDB databases to the latest nomenclature. Goslin 2.0 is available as a standalone web application with a REST API as well as C++, C#, Java, Python 3, and R libraries. Importantly, it can be easily included in lipidomics tools and scripts providing direct access to translation functions. All implementations are open source. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.analchem.1c05430

Details: Category: News; Published: 15 March 2022

HFSPO (Human Frontier Science Program)

With great pleasure, I announce that we were awarded through the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSPO). We are eager to start the chapter on synaptoneurolipidomics, and we are thrilled to start this great project with labs around the globe: