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