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