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R Software Developer in Omics (Research Fellow)
Job posted: 20 Jun 2025
Applications close: 21 Jul 2025

As an R software developer for the mixOmics toolkit, you'll play a crucial role in maintaining and expanding this widely used R package, developed by the Lê Cao Lab at the University of Melbourne. The lab has a multidisciplinary focus on mathematical and statistical characterization of molecular biological systems, and has expertise in developing statistical methods to answer new biological questions arising from frontier molecular technologies. mixOmics is a toolkit that implements 19 multivariate methods for the exploration and integration of “omics” data spanning from transcriptomics (the study of all transcripts) to microbiome data (the study of all bacteria), at tissue and single cell level.

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