Eric Jain

Current

• Software Developer at Scisco Genetics

Past

• Software Developer at Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
• Intern at GeneData
• Webmaster at Biotechnology Communication Office of the Swiss National Science Foundation

• Intern at Novartis

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Education

• University of Applied Sciences Basel
• University of Basel

Connections

42 connections

Industry

Biotechnology

Websites

• My Website

Eric Jain’s Summary

I enjoy dealing with large amounts of complex data and figuring out how to improve the representation to make the data more accessible -- both for humans and machines.

Eric Jain’s Specialties:

Java development, Web architecture, Semantic Web, Open Source

Eric Jain’s Experience

• Software Developer

  Scisco Genetics

  (Government Agency; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

• Software Developer

  Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  May 2002 — December 2007 (5 years 8 months)

  Lead the development and put into production the new web site for UniProt, a major life sciences database (J2EE, Lucene, Spring, Struts, SOAP, REST, XML, JavaScript, AJAX). Created the official RDF distribution of UniProt. Prototyped a database for efficient storage and retrieval of large quantities of RDF data (on top of MySQL) and evaluated the RDF support in Oracle 11g. Set up a data mart for answering questions about how people access the organization's services as well as detecting problems and trends (PostgreSQL). Participated in the development of applications for managing ontologies for UniProt (J2EE, Struts, Hibernate). Guided the organization and its collaborators through the adoption of a Creative Commons license for all distributed data. Introduced collaboration technologies such as a wiki (Confluence), issue tracker (Jira) and instant messaging (Skype). Investigated opportunities to integrate data with external services such as Google Base and A9 etc.

• Intern

  GeneData

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Developed and set up a simple distributed computing system for handling large scale analysis of genome data (JBoss, J2EE, RMI, JMS).

• Webmaster

  Biotechnology Communication Office of the Swiss National Science Foundation

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Biotechnology industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

  Developed and trained people in the use of a content management system (mod_perl and Postgres).

• Intern

  Novartis

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NVS; Biotechnology industry)

  July 1998 — August 1998 (2 months)

  Experimented with different transfection methods for cancer cells.

Eric Jain’s Education

• University of Applied Sciences Basel

  Executive Master , Information Technology , 2001 — 2002

• University of Basel

  Molecular Biology 1997 — 2001

Additional Information

Eric Jain’s Websites:

• My Website

Eric Jain’s Interests:

life sciences, semantic web, web applications, search engines, usability

Eric Jain’s Groups:

•    Seattle Lunch 2.0
•    FriendFeed Life Scientists
•    Seattle Java Users Group (SeaJUG)

Eric Jain’s Contact Settings

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