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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
- Data Analyst
- Computational Biologist
- Bioinformatics Team Member
- Bioinformatics Support Specialist
- Bioinformatics Specialist
- Bioinformatics Engineer
- Bioinformatics Developer
- Bioinformatics Computer Scientist
- Bioinformatics Associate
- Bioinformatics Analyst
- Bioinformatician
- Assistant Scientist
Tasks for “Director of Informatics”
- Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
- Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
- Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
- Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
- Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
- Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
- Analyze large molecular datasets such as raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, and proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
- Compile data for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation, and structural bioinformatics.
- Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
- Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
- Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
- Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
- Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
- 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.
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
- Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
- Manipulate publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
- Develop data models and databases.
- Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
Related Technology & Tools
- Computer data input scanners
- Computer laser printers
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- Desktop computers
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
- Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
- BLAT
- NCBI RefSeq
- JavaScript
- SAS
- Oracle Java
- Velvet
- MySQL
- Apache Hadoop
- ClustalW
- RNA sequencing software
- C++
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Life Technologies Vector NTI
- GenBank
- ENSEMBL
- C
- TIBCO Spotfire S+
- Bowtie
- PostgreSQL
- BWA
- Microsoft Visual C#
- Linux
- Relational database management software
- Celera Assembler
- Web browser software
- Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
- Cufflinks
- Biomatters Geneious
- Structured query language SQL
- Genedata Expressionist
- UNIX
- Bioconductor
- Ruby
- dbSNP
- TopHat
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Life Technologies SOLiD
- Python
- Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
- Public genomic databases
- Tibco S-PLUS
- DNA sequencing software
- BioPerl
- Primer3
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- R
- Microsoft Excel
- Extensible markup language XML
- GenePattern