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Job Description
Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 43-9111.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Bioinformatics Technicians”.
Also Known As…
- Bioinformatics Technicians
- Scientific Informatics Analyst
- Research Assistant
- Museum Informatics Specialist
- Informatics Developer
- Biotechnician
- Bioinformatics Technician
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Bioinformatics Developer
- Bioinformatics Analyst
- Assistant Research Scientist
- Log Data Technician
- Database Technician
- Data Technician
- Data Analyst
- Biometrics Technician
- Bioinformatics Research Technician
- Bioinformatics Assistant
Tasks for “Bioinformatics Specialist”
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
- Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.
- Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.
- Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
- Confer with database users about project timelines and changes.
- Test new or updated software or tools and provide feedback to developers.
- Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.
- Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
- Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
- Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
- Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.
- Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.
- Perform routine system administrative functions such as troubleshooting, back-ups, and upgrades.
- Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
- Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
- Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
- Package bioinformatics data for submission to public repositories.
- Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.
- Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Computer workstation setups
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
- Semiconductor-based sequencers
- High throughput screening HTS systems
- Computer clusters
- Web servers
- Network file servers
- Bioconductor
- TopHat
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Linux
- Genome Analysis ToolKit GATK
- Ruby
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Ion Reporter
- Python
- R
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Jenkins CI
- Cufflinks
- C
- C++
- PHYLIP
- Git
- GENSCAN
- Web browser software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- MySQL
- Bowtie
- Apache Subversion
- Oracle Java
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- ClustalW