Position:
CHEMINFORMATICIAN

Company:
Thomson Scientific

Location:
Toronto, Canada

Purpose:
The applicant must be knowledgeable and experienced on a wide array of 
current chemistry resources. Specifically, the successful candidate will
be responsible for integrating chemical content sources from multiple
databases into an existing bioinformatics web application. Proficiency 
in JAVA and Perl is preferred, and experience with bioinformatics tools 
a clear benefit.

Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for:
* integrating chemical content from reference databases into a 
  high-profile Java web application;
* developing strategies and processing workflows for chemistry database
  integration efforts;
* building software interfaces to enable annotation, search and retrieval
  of chemical structures;
* designing robust quality assurance frameworks to assure data integrity;
* implementing software to be deployed in a parallel computing environment
  together with a skilled software development team;
* maintaining associated systems and applications as necessary; and
* other duties assigned as required.

Qualifications:
The successful candidate will be a team player and will possess:
* an undergraduate degree in computer science or chemistry related field;
* min. 4-yrs software development experience in a production environment;
* hands-on experience with a wide array of data formats employed to 
  depict chemistry information (MOL/SDF/RDF, PubChem XML, CML, PDB, 
  MIF, InChI/SMILES);
* hands-on experience with toolkits commonly employed to capture, 
  index and/or manipulate chemistry data (MDL/Isentris, JChem/MarvinBeans,
  OpenBabel, MOE);
* experience developing and optimizing database driven applications;
* hands-on experience with chemical structure visualization tools 
  (MDL/Chime, Cn3D, MarvinView, KegDraw)
* hands-on experience with chemical structure databases 
  (CAS, PubChem, Crossfire Beilstein);
* hands-on experience in developing Java applications using modern 
  IDEs (Eclipse, NetBeans) and application development frameworks 
  (Struts, Spring);
* solid understanding of organic chemistry; and
* LANGUAGE SKILLS - Java (Servlets, JSP, JAXP, JSTL, JAXB, JDBC), 
  Perl, PHP.

Familiarity with concepts from molecular biology and bioinformatics and 
familiarity with database design in MySQL or Oracle will be considered 
an asset.

Applicants must hold Canadian citizenship or a valid/current 
Open Work Visa to be considered for the position.

Forward relevant information to sam.sgro]|[thomson.com

Please note we will respond to applications of interest within 10 days 
of receipt. Unfortunately, we cannot respond to all applicants.