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