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