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If you think stuff like this is cool, and you'd like to be a part of the software engineering effort at Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, msg me. ccary@parkerici.org

We are building out our platform for bioinformatics. Some engineering topics:

* Large scale data processing (Cloud & on-prem HPC based)

* Bioinformatics / ML algorithms

* Data storage & retrieval (File systems & databases)

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Yes, please elaborate on what the software engineering effort involves! Is this a bioinformatics thing? What kind of work does it involve? Does it require a strong theoretical background? etc.

(Edit: Thanks! Just noticed you added it.)

maybe WRT to https://www.google.com/search?q=genome+sequencing+algorithms which would be needed to find unique patterns among billions of base pairs for CRISPR to target. it's microscopic big data :D

[1] http://benchling.engineering/dna-regex-search/?hn

[2] http://benchling.engineering/optimizing-crispr/

I think this is cool! Are there any particular software engineering skills or experiences that would be really valuable or relevant to this work?

I've got a background in machine learning (NLP, and a little bit of vision) and electrical engineering, but I know very little about biology. Essentially, all I know is a working knowledge based on what I remember from high school. However, I'm incredibly fascinated by some of these recent developments in making biology more computational! I've started working through some Coursera courses on bioinformatics systems biology, and have been totally engrossed so far!

I noticed that the Parker Institute is a non-profit? I was curious what kind of ramp-up path you offer people like me, with a background in ML, and are excited to learn some more biology if they join the team? Since you're a non-profit, I was wondering if there'd be any interest in helping to curate a bunch of links/resources/etc. so people like me can learn and ramp-up in our spare time? I guess I'm wondering if it's difficult to hire for this role. So maybe other non-profits, e.g. J. Craig Venter Institute may also be interested in helping to curate these resources to help increase supply of possible hires?

Hey, could you msg me to talk about this. Thanks!

Cool, I've sent you a follow up email.

If this is a non-profit organization, does this mean that the resulting software will become open-source?

Seems like this is something you might use the Church lab's spinoff Curoverse for?

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