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Though the majority of our efforts focus on the health and wellness of our patients, we never forget that the source of our strong national reputation is the compassionate hearts and extraordinary minds of our staff.

We have locations throughout the great state of Wisconsin. With over 500 golf courses, the world's largest outdoor music festival, the Green Bay Packers, 15,000 lakes (including two Great Lakes), 33,000 miles of rivers, some of the best public schools in the nation, our world-famous milk and cheese, and the fact that our Wisconsin neighbors are incredibly warm and friendly, there is simply no other state we'd want to call home. We love it here, and we know you will too.

Programmer Analyst - Bioinformatics Research

A Research programmer position in Computational Biology/Biomedical Informatics is available at Biomedical Informatics Research Center (BIRC), Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, WI, USA. This position is specific to our ongoing and proposed projects related to developing computational models to elucidate the causal pathways of gene expression regulatory networks, phenotypic effects (e.g. individual differences in disease susceptibility and responses to medications) of genetic/transcriptional variations, functional elements in non-coding DNA sequences, and Biomedical literature mining among others.

The successful applicant will have a MS/PhD degree or equivalent, research experience in Computer Science, Bioinformatics or related areas, and will have excellent programming skills in C, C++, JAVA and Perl. Knowledge and experience with advanced data-structures, multi-threading, multi-core, large memory environment, large sparse datasets and performance tuning is desired. Experience in gene network modeling, genome sequence analysis, biological text mining, machine learning, and Bayesian networks, Conditional Random Fields, HMM models will be of advantage.

The applicant will have a chance to develop programs and implement sophisticated algorithms related to Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence. Particular emphasis will be given to static/dynamic Bayesian networks data mining, causal Bayesian networks.

The successful applicant will be able to take advantage of excellent high performance computing facilities at BIRC.

_Contact_:
Please send your application with the complete Curriculum Vitae, the academic record (including courses and grades) and contact details of at least two persons who may be asked for reference to: chowdhary.rajesh@mcrf.mfldclin.edu

Marshfield Clinic is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity. Minorities, females, individuals, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

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