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