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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”.

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Tasks for “Scientific Database Curator”

Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
Manipulate publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
Compile data for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation, and structural bioinformatics.
Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
Analyze large molecular datasets such as raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, and proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
Keep abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical bioinformatics.
Develop data models and databases.

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Tibco S-PLUS
dbSNP
Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
TopHat
MySQL
Bioconductor
Biomatters Geneious
Cufflinks
JavaScript
Structured query language SQL
ClustalW
Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Public genomic databases
BLAT
NCBI RefSeq
Relational database management software
Life Technologies Vector NTI
BWA
PostgreSQL
Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
UNIX
Python
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
Ruby
Velvet
Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
TIBCO Spotfire S+
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Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
GenePattern
The MathWorks MATLAB
Web browser software
Celera Assembler
Genedata Expressionist
GenBank
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Visual C#
Bowtie
RNA sequencing software
C++
ENSEMBL
SAS
Linux
Oracle Java
DNA sequencing software
R
Hypertext markup language HTML
Extensible markup language XML
Primer3
Life Technologies SOLiD