Bioinformatics position at Singapore Botanic Gardens

The Singapore Botanic Gardens (SBG) is one of the oldest tropical botanical gardens and one of only three botanic gardens in the world inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It has an extensive living and herbarium collection, including large living collections of orchids, palms, cycads, gingers and plants of human cultural significance, along with extensive herbarium collections from Singapore, Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia. It also has a state-of-the-art laboratory for tissue culture work and molecular work.

Singapore Botanic Gardens is searching for a bioinformatics researcher for a three-year position that will involve conducting bioinformatics analyses on nucleotide data generated using Illumina HiSeq, ddRAD/ RADSeq, HybSeq, RNASeq, HiC, etc. The successful candidate is expected to work collaboratively with the Singapore Botanic Gardens’ researchers on projects ranging from plant identification to biogeography, phylogenomics and conservation genomics. For details see https://www.careers.hrp.gov.sg/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/sap/ZGERCFA004/index.html#/JobDescription/12937612/005056a3-53e2-1edd-9ed1-ae09d76b0c15