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