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