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