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