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