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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
- Bioinformatics Research Technician
- Bioinformatics Assistant
Tasks for “Biometrics Technician”
- Package bioinformatics data for submission to public repositories.
- 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.
- Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.
- Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
- Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
- Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
- Test new or updated software or tools and provide feedback to developers.
- Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
- Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
- Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
- Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.
- Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
- Perform routine system administrative functions such as troubleshooting, back-ups, and upgrades.
- Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
- Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.
- Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.
- Confer with database users about project timelines and changes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer clusters
- Desktop computers
- Computer workstation setups
- Web servers
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
- Semiconductor-based sequencers
- High throughput screening HTS systems
- Network file servers
- Jenkins CI
- Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA
- GENSCAN
- Apache Subversion
- Oracle Java
- Linux
- C
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- C++
- PHYLIP
- ClustalW
- Ruby
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Bowtie
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- Genome Analysis ToolKit GATK
- TopHat
- Web browser software
- R
- Cufflinks
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- MySQL
- Git
- Python
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Ion Reporter
- Bioconductor