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