Structural Bioinformatician

7 days ago

Cambridge, United Kingdom Astex Pharmaceuticals Full time

**The Role**

You will be part of a team that includes bioinformaticians, biologists, computational chemists and structural biologists. There will be opportunities for research into novel methods including machine learning based approaches.

**Principal Responsibilities**:

- Support ongoing drug discovery projects e.g. assessment of potential selectivity issues
- Develop tools for mining & visualising three-dimensional protein structural information & integration with multi-omics biological data

**Preferred skills and Experience**:
Ph.D. in structural bioinformatics, structural biology, bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science or related discipline
- Experience analysing protein structures and sequences
- Proficiency in Python
- Good understanding of standard statistical methods and their usage
- Excellent team working, written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with machine learning methods would be an advantage, but is not a requirement

**Why Astex**

We offer excellent training and career development opportunities as well as highly competitive salary and benefits package including hybrid working options to promote a flexible and inclusive work environment.

At Astex we embrace diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse Company representing all backgrounds, harnessing industry-leading scientific innovation and behaviours.

Astex is situated 2.5 miles from Cambridge City centre on the Cambridge Science Park. The Park has onsite sports facilities and excellent transport links to London.

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