A Research Scientist position is available in the Comparative Genomics group of Dr Natasha Glover and Prof Christophe Dessimoz at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics / University of Lausanne.

Plant genomes present major challenges for orthology inference, including high duplication rates, gene family expansion, genome rearrangements, hybridisation, introgression, and variable annotation quality. The successful candidate will develop and benchmark new approaches to improve HOG inference by integrating additional sources of evidence, especially protein structure and synteny.

The Research Scientist will be expected to:

• Develop methods to improve orthology reconstruction and HOG inference in plants.
• Integrate protein structure information into the OMA orthology inference workflow, with the aim of improving deep homology detection and refining HOGs.
• Perform large-scale orthology inference and benchmarking on plant datasets, including g...