Will “Scientific Informatics Leader” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔
Unknown Chance of Automation
Sadly, the research paper did not provide any information about this occupation. Maybe have a look at our directory?
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
- 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
- Assistant Scientist
Tasks for “Scientific Informatics Leader”
- 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.
- Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
- Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
- Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
- Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.
- Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
- Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
- Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
- Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
- Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
- Develop data models and databases.
- Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
- Keep abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
- 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.
- Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
- Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical bioinformatics.
- 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
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- Computer laser printers
- Computer data input scanners
- Public genomic databases
- dbSNP
- RNA sequencing software
- TIBCO Spotfire S+
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Relational database management software
- ClustalW
- Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
- Genedata Expressionist
- Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
- Life Technologies Vector NTI
- Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
- Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
- Bioconductor
- GenBank
- ENSEMBL
- BLAT
- Oracle Java
- DNA sequencing software
- Microsoft Excel
- Bowtie
- C
- JavaScript
- Tibco S-PLUS
- Primer3
- GenePattern
- Ruby
- Biomatters Geneious
- Structured query language SQL
- Hypertext markup language HTML
- Celera Assembler
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- C++
- SAS
- Extensible markup language XML
- NCBI RefSeq
- R
- TopHat
- Velvet
- BWA
- Linux
- Microsoft Visual C#
- Apache Hadoop
- BioPerl
- PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
- UNIX
- Cufflinks
- Web browser software
- Life Technologies SOLiD
- Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
- Python