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