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Job Description
Conduct research using bioinformatics theory and methods in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. May design databases and develop algorithms for processing and analyzing genomic information, or other biological information.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1029.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Bioinformatics Scientists”.
Also Known As…
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Senior Scientist
- Senior Research Associate
- Scientific Informatics Project Leader
- Scientific Database Curator
- Research Scientist
- Director, Informatics
- Director of Translation and Experimental Medicine Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics Scientist
- Bioinformaticist
- Systems Analyst
- Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
- Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
- Scientist
- Scientific Informatics Leader
- Research Professor of Biostatistics
- Research Associate
- Research Assistant
- Principal Bioinformatics Specialist
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Postdoc
- Post Doctoral Researcher
- Molecular Modeler
- Microarray Specialist
- Microarray Analyst
- Drug Discovery Informatics Specialist
- Director of Informatics
- Director of Bioinformatics and Trait Discovery
- Data Analyst
- Computational Biologist
- Bioinformatics Team Member
- Bioinformatics Support Specialist
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Bioinformatics Engineer
- Bioinformatics Developer
- Bioinformatics Computer Scientist
- Bioinformatics Associate
- Bioinformatics Analyst
- Bioinformatician
- Assistant Scientist
Tasks for “Director of Bioinformatics and Trait Discovery”
- Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
- Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
- Compile data for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation, and structural bioinformatics.
- Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
- Keep abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
- Manipulate publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
- Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
- Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
- Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
- Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical bioinformatics.
- Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
- Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
- Analyze large molecular datasets such as raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, and proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
- Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
- Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
- Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
- Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
- Develop data models and databases.
- Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer laser printers
- Computer data input scanners
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Desktop computers
- MySQL
- ClustalW
- Cufflinks
- Bioconductor
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Excel
- Bowtie
- JavaScript
- BWA
- Genedata Expressionist
- Primer3
- Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
- Tibco S-PLUS
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Biomatters Geneious
- Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
- Relational database management software
- PostgreSQL
- NCBI RefSeq
- GenBank
- C++
- Celera Assembler
- Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
- Apache Hadoop
- TIBCO Spotfire S+
- Microsoft Visual C#
- UNIX
- Structured query language SQL
- C
- BLAT
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Extensible markup language XML
- TopHat
- RNA sequencing software
- GenePattern
- Linux
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Velvet
- SAS
- R
- ENSEMBL
- Life Technologies SOLiD
- BioPerl
- Ruby
- Life Technologies Vector NTI
- DNA sequencing software
- Oracle Java
- Python
- dbSNP
- Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
- Public genomic databases