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