Inria project team SYMBIOSE is seeking highly qualified and motivated candidates for a 12 months postdoctoral position. Research Program : Next Generation Sequencing technologies generate data of a new type in huge volumes and crucial computational developments are needed to take full advantage of these data. The successful candidate will develop new algorithms to identify complex genomic variants, such as structural variants, in such data from multiple samples without the use of a reference genome. Our approach relies on a formal model based on the De-Bruijn graph data structure to handle huge amounts of data and extract biologically relevant information. For further details visit our website http://www.irisa.fr/symbiose/ and the project description http://www.irisa.fr/symbiose/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=29 Profile : - PhD in computational biology or algorithmics with a strong interest for biology - good programming skills (C, C++, python, java, ...) - background in sequence and graph algorithmics - a prior experience with high throughput sequencing data will be appreciated Working environment : The position is located in France, in the city of Rennes at the INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique center. SYMBIOSE is a dynamic and multi-disciplinary research team working in computational biology and bioinformatics, and with a strong expertise in short reads assembly. The contract is for 12 months, starting as soon as January 2012. Salary is 2620 euros monthly before taxes deduction. Application : Please send a cover letter, a CV with publications and two references contacts to claire.lemaitre@inria.fr.