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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 Developer
- Bioinformatics Analyst
- Assistant Research Scientist
- Log Data Technician
- Database Technician
- Data Technician
- Data Analyst
- Biometrics Technician
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Bioinformatics Research Technician
- Bioinformatics Assistant
Tasks for “Bioinformatics Specialist”
- Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.
- Package bioinformatics data for submission to public repositories.
- Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
- 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.
- 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.
- Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
- Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.
- Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.
- Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
- Test new or updated software or tools and provide feedback to developers.
- Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
- 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.
- Perform routine system administrative functions such as troubleshooting, back-ups, and upgrades.
- Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer clusters
- Network file servers
- Semiconductor-based sequencers
- Web servers
- Computer workstation setups
- Desktop computers
- High throughput screening HTS systems
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Ion Reporter
- PHYLIP
- Web browser software
- ClustalW
- R
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Apache Subversion
- Ruby
- C
- C++
- Oracle Java
- Bowtie
- MySQL
- Git
- Bioconductor
- Python
- Linux
- TopHat
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Jenkins CI
- Cufflinks
- Genome Analysis ToolKit GATK
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA
- GENSCAN