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