PhD in Bioinformatics - Visual Analytics applied to Biological Data
Job No:
G37
Location:
Darlinghurst, Sydney
Supervisor: Dr Seán O’Donoghue
General Research Project Area:
The Garvan has recently started a new group focused on developing methods and tools for visualizing biological data. Jointly associated with CSIRO, the group focuses primarily on using principles of usability, data visualization, human-computer interfaces, and graphic design to develop state-of-the-art methods and tools that address cutting edge challenges in biological and biomedical research. A second focus of the team is on using these methods to analyse experimental datasets in collaboration with groups at the Garvan. Projects will include the VIZBI initiative (http://vizbi.org ), the Reflect system for enhancing scientific literature (http://reflect.ws ), and developing methods for integrating macromolecular 3D structures with genomics, proteomics, and other systems biology data. For further details see http://odonoghuelab.org/ .
Techniques Used
Bioinformatics software development, graphics design, 3D graphics, 3D animation, Human-computer interface development. Applications to data from genomics, proteomics, systems biology and scientific literature databases
Required Background
These positions could be filled by students from a range of backgrounds, including bioinformatics, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, or computer scientists and an interest in using data visualization, human computer interaction, usability, or design to address key challenges in basic biomedical research. Of particular interest would be students with strong JavaScript or Java3D skills, as well as a strong interest in using HTML 5 to build the next-generation of visualization tools for analysing omics datasets for systems biology. There is also scope for students wishing to focus not on tool development, but on applying visualization techniques to data from various disease areas, possibly in collaboration with other groups at Garvan.