[Yap-users] Position: 2 Research Associates, "Bio-Logical"

[Amanda C. <aj...@ab...>]

This could be suitable for Mercury or Yap users, since we're
looking for people who know about deductive databases or
inductive logic programming. Apologies for multiple copies
if you subscribe to both.


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Position: 2 Research Associates
Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Web: www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/bio/

Bio-Logical: An Intelligent Database for Yeast Functional Genomics

The Computational Biology group of the Department of Computer Science,
University of Wales Aberystwyth is a world leader in the application
of Artificial Intelligence techniques to scientific problems in
biology and chemistry.  The aim of the project is to develop an
integrated bioinformatic database with inbuilt reasoning ability.

The research will be done under the leadership of Dr Ross D. King and
in collaboration with Professor Steve Oliver (University of Manchester)
and Dr. Ashwin Srinivasan (University of Oxford).

We are interested in candidates with a PhD who have demonstrable
research expertise in machine inference (deduction or induction) and
who are interested in bioinformatics. The appointment will be for a
fixed term of four years on the RA11 salary range (25,455-32,537).

Informal enquiries to Ross D. King on +44 (0)1970-622432 or
rd...@ab... . For information on Computational Biology research
see: http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dcswww/Research/bio/
Closing date 22.3.2002.

An application form can be obtained by contacting the Personnel
Office, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Old College, King Street,
Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 2AX. Tel: +44(0)1970-621586, fax:
+44(0)1970- 622975 or by e-mail: per...@ab... or at
http://www.aber.ac.uk/employment.shtml