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Position Summary:
LORIS is a web-based data management software designed at the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (MCIN). The candidate will be contributing to the development and maintenance of LORIS and specifically to The Advanced Research Collaboration for Health Integration, Medical Exploration, and Data Synthesis (ARCHIMEDES) LORIS platform which delivers a multimodal informatics infrastructure to provide users access to curated and federated health data, with open-access repository and advanced predictive analytics functionality. The ARCHIMEDES Repository is an Open Science collection of biological samples, clinical information, imaging, and genetic data from patients with neurological disease as well as from healthy control subjects.
Reporting to the Senior Software Developer, the candidate will support the design, development, testing, and maintenance of tools and pipelines on MCIN’s LORIS platform pertaining specifically ARCHIMEDES. This includes building new automated importers for diverse data types—such as clinical, imaging and behavioral data—originating from multiple internal and external research groups. Responsibilities include implementing new features, enhancing existing functionality, bug tracking and resolution, user support, and maintaining both frontend and backend components of the platform. The developer will also be expected to contribute to technical documentation and help ensure data integrity and standardization in alignment with FAIR and open science principles.
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