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