Bioinformatics Specialist Full-time

Department

BSD PED – Section Administrator: Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation

About the Department

The Section of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology provides care for patients and families with acute and chronic medical conditions, or other hematologic diseases, requiring the specialty knowledge and skills of Hematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation.

Job Summary

The Piunti Lab is looking for a Bioinformatics Specialist; the job administers programs and support all phases of bioinformatics activities by helping devise or modify procedures to solve biological complex problems. The Bioinformatics Specialist is responsible for all aspects of research projects and research facilities. Plans and conducts clinical and non-clinical research; facilitates and monitors daily activities of research projects. Directs engineering and technical support activities to develop and maintain tools and computational methods needed to gather and analyze data.

Responsibilities

• Knowledge and experience in basic and advance analyses of NGS data (ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, Hi-C, Bisulfite sequencing, etc.).
• Participates in creating data algorithms and specialized computer software to identify and classify components of a biological system (i.e. create a pipeline for data analyses and an accessible internal repository for sequencing data).
• Applies basic application of computational tools and information technology to gather, analyze and visualize data in biology and biomedical research (i.e. generating easy-to-interpret graphs that can be used for publications or presentations at conferences).
• Interprets data analysis of high throughput genomics, proteomics and genetic data generally concerning chromatin biology projects.
• Plans own resources to implement or modify existing web-based bioinformatics tools.
• Designs and perform formal evaluation of informatics methods and products.
• Manipulates publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

Education:

Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.

Work Experience:

Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• College or university degree in Biology, Biology or Informatics or related disciplines.
• Master’s degree strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Author of at least one research article where the candidate contributed to bioinformatics analyses.
• Experience in single cell genomic analyses

Working Conditions

• Laboratory setting

Application Documents

• Resume (required)
• Cover letter (preferred)
• References (preferred)

When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.

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