Apply — Postdoc position - Metagenomic mining & Bioprospecting of novel enzymes

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What is your primary motivation for joining the ORIGIN project? *

/350 characters Describe your experience mining large metagenomic / MAG datasets to discover novel genes (tools such as DIAMOND, MMseqs, HMMER). *

/350 characters Which HPC / Linux environments and pipeline tools are you fluent with? *

/350 characters Describe your experience with functional annotation (e.g. eggNOG-mapper) and pathway or BGC reconstruction (antiSMASH, synteny). *

/350 characters Have you used protein language models (ESM, ProstT5) or structure prediction (AlphaFold) for remote homology or function prediction? Describe. *

/350 characters Describe your background or interest in biochemistry, structural biology or comparative genomics. *

/350 characters Describe your experience in microbial ecology and genomics. *

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