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