We are a small startup company dedicated to building advanced  
literature-based discovery and knowledge management services for  
(life) scientists. We are from very diverse backgrounds such as  
biology, computer science, and linguistics. The drive of our company  
is the observation that for an individual scientist, there is not  
only too much to read and understand but also no convenient way to  
combine and evaluate existing knowledge into potentially valid new  
knowledge.

We will build web-based services, partly freely available, partly  
subscription-based that will assist the individual researcher in  
exploring the knowledge space of his interest. For example: a  
biologist has been building expertise for several years on a few  
proteins that are potentially involved in the onset of a certain  
disease. The scientist is then not only interested in reading  
anything available on the relevant proteins and diseases, but would  
also be interested in emerging associations that have not yet been  
proven but are highly likely based on the information contained in  
diverse literatures.

We are a US-based company with employees both in the USA and Europe.  
The main ideas and algorithms have been developed at the Erasmus  
University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Leiden University, Leiden,  
The Netherlands over the past few years. As there is a strong  
connection with the academic world, we have first-hand insight in the  
needs and requirements of our customers.


Job Description:

The main part of our development will take place in our Rockville, MD  
office. We are looking for two developers that will work from this  
office. The envisoned services are web applications and thorough  
knowledge and expertise in developing these kind of applications is  
essential. While both developers will have core competencies in web  
application development, one person will focus on the client side  
creating rich internet aplications (RIA/AJAX) and the other one will  
focus on the server side of the application. Fine tuning and  
scalability expertise is of interest.Next to technical and computer  
science expertise, the candidate developer should be comfortable in a  
multi-disciplinary context and should be able to explain technical  
issues to smart but not-so-technical colleagues. Familiarity with the  
biomedical domain and language is a plus.


Needed qualifications:

Web Application Development
Python/Zope/Java/ Object Oriented Programming
HTML/CSS/XML/JavaScript/Rich Internet Applications (RIA/AJAX)


Contact:

Marc Weeber
weeber(at)knewco.com
phone: 412 687 1265