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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”
- Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.
- Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.
- 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.
- Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.
- Perform routine system administrative functions such as troubleshooting, back-ups, and upgrades.
- Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
- 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.
- Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.
- Package bioinformatics data for submission to public repositories.
- Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.
- Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
- Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
- Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
- Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
- Confer with database users about project timelines and changes.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- High throughput screening HTS systems
- Web servers
- Desktop computers
- Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
- Computer workstation setups
- Computer clusters
- Semiconductor-based sequencers
- Network file servers
- Git
- Ruby
- C
- Linux
- Burrows-Wheeler Aligner BWA
- Genome Analysis ToolKit GATK
- Apache Subversion
- PHYLIP
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Python
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- TopHat
- GENSCAN
- ClustalW
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Ion Reporter
- Oracle Java
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Basic Local Alignment Search Tool BLAST
- MySQL
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Cufflinks
- R
- Jenkins CI
- Web browser software
- Bowtie
- C++
- Bioconductor