Vacancy ** *Scientific Programmer* * **Description * The scientific programmer will be part of a team of five programmers located at various institutes in the Netherlands, constructing a metabolomics data warehouse infrastructure and related applications, within the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre (NMC, http://www.metabolomicscentre.nl/). Within this team, the specific tasks of the scientific programmer are to adapt and expand bioinformatics tools for biological interpretation of nutritional and biomedical metabolomics data. These tools allow to link the metabolomics data, directly from the data warehouse, to intracellular and intra-organ activities, pathways and processes. This will provide a generic bioinformatics evaluation and visualization tool to be used in the area of life style associated diseases such as obesity, atherosclerosis and diabetes type II. It will help in the early diagnosis of disease and developing disease prevention strategies. All data warehouse and applications will be made exportable to controlled vocabularies and ontologies, to make easy exchange of data possible. The programmer will assist in providing web interfaces for the metabolomics database and web-enabling of applications. The data warehouse should be constructed in such a way that overview over the study design, the type of analysis used and the toolbox used for biological interpretation can be queried at once. *Background* The Netherlands Metabolomics Centre is a multicenter research program in which biologists, analytical chemists, database builders and statisticians work together. Therefore excellent networking capacities will be essential for this project. Metabolomics technologies measure a multitude of small chemical molecules in a sample, to get an accurate picture of the physiology of a cell, organ or system (such as human). The research projects within the NMC are mainly focused on human health care, nutrition and plant sciences. The scientific programmer will be appointed at the University of Leiden but work in the Physiological Genomics team of the Biosciences Busniness Unit of TNO, located in Zeist. Physiological Genomics is responsible for the biological and physiological interpretation of "omics" data in (human) health research. At the moment our team exists of 12 (young) researchers. *Requirements* - Experience with HTML, PHP, MySQL, Java and Javascript. - Master in (bio)informatics, ICT / automation or related background with a strong affinity for life sciences, - Knowledge of ontologies and pathway visualization will be of advantage. - Team worker, self-reliant, flexible, and innovative. * *Additional Information: Dr. B. van Ommen, tel : 030 6944438, e-mail: ben.vanommen@tno.nl