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