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Biolauncher: Semantic System Developer (System Integration and Analysis)

SQL Python Java C# Data-mining Oop Semantic-analysis Gate Uima Sparql

£25-30K / Cambridge

Description

Biolauncher is a specialist entrepreneur advisory company with a “secret” interest in exploiting life science information to create value from published content. Our core technology is an advanced semantic integration and analysis platform that builds upon our 15 years experience in this sector. We collect and analyse information in an automated fashion from 350 publically available sources and integrate them in our Showcase Bio enterprise analytics system.

We have been awarded funding by the Technology Strategy Board to undertake a large scale data analysis system to repurpose existing drugs for new disease indication, a cost-effective way of finding new approaches to treating disease. We are working with major computational chemistry and publishers on the project. We therefore have a new role to support the development of the system, and we are seeking a smart graduate who is able to work independently in a small, dynamic environment.

You will work alongside Dr Steve Gardner a semantic data entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience including raising over £50M to fund new informatics ventures at the forefront of bio- and healthcare informatics. If you are a smart developer with entrepreneurial ambition, this is a great opportunity to develop your business and technology skills while working on a cutting edge semantic data integration and analysis system.

As our Semantic System Developer, you will be involved in a range of work on a daily basis:

Designing and implementing a novel semantic normalisation capability
Planning and building tailored distributed and scalable content solutions for new drug repurposing opportunities
Supporting investor analysis
Developing your own semantic technologies

What skills you will bring:

1-2 years commercial experience ideally in complex data system development
An ambition to be at the cutting edge of semantic technologies and trends
A desire to learn, imagine and design better approaches
Able to figure out solutions to complex problems
Able to meet deadlines, manage own time efficiently, and work with smart people

Previous experience of text mining, information extraction and search tools such as GATE, UIMA, Sphinx, Lucence etc.
Understand the use of indexes, cursors and stored procedures/functions
Experience of data pipelining and workflows
Comfortable working with many APIs
Fluency in Java and/or C#
Relational database experience, particularly with MySQL and/or SPARQL

We are an experienced team who work with the best. We have been working with distributed HPC computing platforms since before they were called GRIDs let alone Clouds. We have a track record of delivering highly innovative enterprise systems to the pharmaceutical industry. Our approach is very analytics focused and data-driven, and we want to improve the world by helping clients find new medicines to treat disease.