We have a Ph.D. studentship available to study the use of emerging
object-oriented software technologies in bioinformatics and molecular
modelling. The successful candidate will look at new ways to efficient
store, retrieve and manipulate biological data. They will experiment with
the use of object-oriented databases to store molecular sequence and
structure objects. In addition, the student will also investigate the use
of CORBA to distribute these objects across local networks and across the
Internet. The student will join our BBSRC funded Software Engineering
Group which is building a C++ class library for the construction of
object-oriented bioinformatics software.

Ideally, applicants should have at least six months experience in
developing object-oriented software. However, we will consider candidates
trained in computer science and who have an interest developing biological
applications or candidates trained in a biological science who have a
strong interest in the use of computer technology in biological research.

If you would like to be considered for this studentship, please contact
Jody McGill for an application form and further details by the end of
June, 1997.

Jody McGill, 	    	    	j.mcgill@mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
Crystallography Department, 	0171-6316800
Birkbeck College,
Malet Street,
London.
WC1E 7HX

For more details of the class library project see our web site at 
"http://www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk/classlib/".