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Job Description
Conduct research using bioinformatics theory and methods in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. May design databases and develop algorithms for processing and analyzing genomic information, or other biological information.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1029.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Bioinformatics Scientists”.
Also Known As…
- Bioinformatics Scientists
- Senior Scientist
- Senior Research Associate
- Scientific Informatics Project Leader
- Scientific Database Curator
- Research Scientist
- Director, Informatics
- Director of Translation and Experimental Medicine Bioinformatics
- Director of Bioinformatics and Trait Discovery
- Bioinformatics Scientist
- Bioinformaticist
- Systems Analyst
- Senior Bioinformatics Specialist
- Senior Bioinformatics Scientist
- Scientist
- Scientific Informatics Leader
- Research Professor of Biostatistics
- Research Associate
- Research Assistant
- Principal Bioinformatics Specialist
- Postdoctoral Scholar
- Postdoc
- Post Doctoral Researcher
- Molecular Modeler
- Microarray Specialist
- Microarray Analyst
- Drug Discovery Informatics Specialist
- Director of Informatics
- Data Analyst
- Computational Biologist
- Bioinformatics Team Member
- Bioinformatics Support Specialist
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Bioinformatics Engineer
- Bioinformatics Developer
- Bioinformatics Computer Scientist
- Bioinformatics Associate
- Bioinformatics Analyst
- Bioinformatician
Tasks for “Assistant Scientist”
- Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
- Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical bioinformatics.
- Keep abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
- Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
- Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
- Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
- Develop data models and databases.
- Compile data for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation, and structural bioinformatics.
- Analyze large molecular datasets such as raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, and proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
- Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
- Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
- Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
- Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
- Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
- Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
- Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
- Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
- Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
- Manipulate publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer data input scanners
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- Computer laser printers
- Desktop computers
- NCBI RefSeq
- SAS
- GenePattern
- MySQL
- UNIX
- Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
- PostgreSQL
- Velvet
- ClustalW
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- Ruby
- Linux
- Microsoft Excel
- Primer3
- TopHat
- BioPerl
- Relational database management software
- ENSEMBL
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- JavaScript
- Microsoft Visual C#
- dbSNP
- Extensible markup language XML
- Python
- C
- Bioconductor
- Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
- RNA sequencing software
- Biomatters Geneious
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- BLAT
- C++
- GenBank
- Life Technologies SOLiD
- R
- Structured query language SQL
- Public genomic databases
- DNA sequencing software
- BWA
- Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
- Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
- Genedata Expressionist
- Tibco S-PLUS
- TIBCO Spotfire S+
- Web browser software
- Apache Hadoop
- Life Technologies Vector NTI
- Cufflinks
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Celera Assembler
- Oracle Java
- Bowtie