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