[ccp4bb]: Job Vacancies - CCP4 Molecular Graphics Project

[Liz Potterton <lizp@ysbl.york.ac.uk>]

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Hello CCP4BB

Please see the job advertisement below - also full details at:

http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/persnl/jobs/6029.htm

and more about the project

http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP4/newsletter39/06_molgraphics.html

Liz


CCP4 AND THE DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY, UNIVERSITY OF YORK

Software Engineer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow 

Reference: ccp4bb/6029

CCP4, a collaborative computational project supported by the BBSRC to
provide
software support for protein crystallography, has undertaken to develop
a molecular
graphics package to enhance the current suite of programs. A software
engineer and a
postdoctoral fellow are required for this project.

Software Engineer: You will have a strong background in computing and
will work
on the design and implementation of (i) the event handler at the core of
the program,
(ii) an applications server to mediate between the graphics program and
scientific
applications and (iii) a mechanism for internet communication,
particularly with
databases.

Postdoctoral Fellow: You will have a scientific background in
crystallography or
molecular modelling and significant programming experience. Experience
with C,
C++ and Python languages would be an advantage. You will assist in
implementing
(i) the graphics display libraries, (ii) implementing general scientific
functionality to
support model building and structure analysis and (iii) providing
simple, automated
interfaces to the scientific functionality. This post will involve
collaboration with
scientific contributors to CCP4 in other institutions.

One post will be held in the Department of Chemistry at the University
of York. The
other could be located, if desirable, at one of the other CCP4 member
sites (eg
Oxford, Cambridge, or Daresbury Laboratory).

Appointments to both posts will be for a period of three years and the
salary will be
on the Grade IA of the scale for research staff. For further information
about CCP4
see: http://www.dl.ac.uk/CCP/CCP4 and for the York Structural Biology
Laboratory
see: http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ Informal enquiries to Dr Liz Potterton
(lizp@ysbl.york.ac.uk).

The closing date for applications is 23 April 2001.