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Job date: 2018-02-14
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Company : Genomics England Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-02-14
End Date:
Company : Genomics England Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
The successful candidate will provide high calibre bioinformatics research support to external researchers and industrial partners by enabling analysis, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre. As senior analyst you will understand our datasets and how to analyse clinical and genomic data and use tools and services to realise the maximum value from accessing our data. There is cross-working with other bioinformatics team members developing our interpretation pipeline for the National Health Service. Key Accountabilities include:
Additional Info:
About Genomics England and the 100,000 Genomes Project Genomics England is creating a lasting legacy for patients, the NHS and the UK economy through sequencing of 100,000 genomes from around 70,000 people. In so doing, Genomics England aims to not only transform patient care by embedding genomic medicine into routine healthcare, but also to kick start a UK Genomics industry via the industry engagement arm of the organisation, Genomics Enterprises. What will emerge will be a central pillar in the Government’s emerging industrial strategy for life sciences. We are building a dedicated Bioinformatics Research Service Team to provide high calibre bioinformatics support to external researchers and industrial partners. You’ll be part of a dynamic team supporting customers by delivering custom analyses, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre. The team will ensure the scientific quality and integrity of the analyses, ensuring that it meets the needs of our partners and collaborators. It’s a great opportunity to part of a unique service , ensuring that innovative projects and partnerships achieve far reaching goals. The project will also enable new medical research. Combining genomic sequence data with medical records is a ground-breaking resource. Researchers will study how best to use genomics in healthcare and how best to interpret the data to help patients. The causes, diagnosis and treatment of disease will also be investigated. We also aim to kick-start a UK genomics industry. This is currently the largest national sequencing project of its kind in the world. Further Information Work Pattern: Full time Contract Duration: Permanent (Secondment role also considered) Start Date: As soon as possible If you are seeking a role in which you can make a substantive contribution to the ground-breaking 100,000 Genomes project, we would very much like to hear from you. For an informal discussion please contact Eugene McDaid on +44 (0)121 616 3475 and to apply, please send a CV and cover letter to eMcDaid@pararecruit.com Other information to support recruitment: The post holder works as part of a skilled team supporting our academic and industry partners with their genomics projects. We will appoint individuals to build a team with complementary expertise in bioinformatics, data analysis, and statistical genetics/genomics. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
The successful candidate will provide high calibre bioinformatics research support to external researchers and industrial partners by enabling analysis, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre. As senior analyst you will understand our datasets and how to analyse clinical and genomic data and use tools and services to realise the maximum value from accessing our data. There is cross-working with other bioinformatics team members developing our interpretation pipeline for the National Health Service. Key Accountabilities include:
- Understanding the needs of customers (academic, NHS and industry); working with customers to ensure that their scientific projects are successful and that they gain value from their interactions with our Research Environment. This includes face to face engagement to assess needs and execution.
- Carrying out complex custom analysis
- Providing high calibre troubleshooting of problems for customers, appraise customers and Genomics England options and execute solutions, co-ordinating with internal teams when necessary.
- Keeping track of customer relationships and being the internal authority on specific customer issues, needs, and future plans.
- Being the key point of contact with customers collecting and updating requirements, communicating progress and feedback
- A background in a strongly quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Physics, or Computer Science, ideally with some postdoctoral experience in fields related to statistical genetics or genomics, or a demonstrable equivalent background
- Strong evidence of experience of bioinformatics research and analytics using large genomic datasets of next generation sequencing data alongside clinical data in a field relevant to Genomics England
- Strong customer-service orientation and proven expertise in partnership working with customers, preferably in the scientific/pharma industry.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal andexcellent facilitation, influencing and presentation skills
- Proven ability to communicate with key customer and internalstakeholders from diverse backgrounds (e.g. management, IT, R and D, biology, bioinformatics)
- Excellent team working skills and comfortable working as part ofmatrix teams and as part of external teams to ensure delivery.
- Experience of working in a knowledge sharing environment
- Willingness to travel occasionally (<15%) to meet customers or to attend events to gain market insight.
- Strong statistical analysis skills. Experience with cloud-scale data processing and high-performance computing.
- Demonstrated knowledge and competence in relevant programming languages and applications (e.g. R, Python) and experience of using a suite of bioinformatics tools to problem solve and answer research questions.
- Ability to work independently with a high degree of motivation andfocus, and to complete tasks according to company priorities with minimal supervision.
- Adaptable to an ever-evolving working environment
- Experience of technical writing.
- Knowledge and competence in relevant applications eg LabKey, OpenCGA.
- Strong publication record in a relevant field, and a proven ability to stay abreast of developments in that field.
- Previous experience of delivering training resources and events.
- Proven understanding of clinical and phenotypic data management and the sensitivities surrounding patient cohort data.
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Biology
- genomic
- HPC
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in R
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
About Genomics England and the 100,000 Genomes Project Genomics England is creating a lasting legacy for patients, the NHS and the UK economy through sequencing of 100,000 genomes from around 70,000 people. In so doing, Genomics England aims to not only transform patient care by embedding genomic medicine into routine healthcare, but also to kick start a UK Genomics industry via the industry engagement arm of the organisation, Genomics Enterprises. What will emerge will be a central pillar in the Government’s emerging industrial strategy for life sciences. We are building a dedicated Bioinformatics Research Service Team to provide high calibre bioinformatics support to external researchers and industrial partners. You’ll be part of a dynamic team supporting customers by delivering custom analyses, facilitating access to datasets and ensuring optimal use of the Genomics England Research Data Centre. The team will ensure the scientific quality and integrity of the analyses, ensuring that it meets the needs of our partners and collaborators. It’s a great opportunity to part of a unique service , ensuring that innovative projects and partnerships achieve far reaching goals. The project will also enable new medical research. Combining genomic sequence data with medical records is a ground-breaking resource. Researchers will study how best to use genomics in healthcare and how best to interpret the data to help patients. The causes, diagnosis and treatment of disease will also be investigated. We also aim to kick-start a UK genomics industry. This is currently the largest national sequencing project of its kind in the world. Further Information Work Pattern: Full time Contract Duration: Permanent (Secondment role also considered) Start Date: As soon as possible If you are seeking a role in which you can make a substantive contribution to the ground-breaking 100,000 Genomes project, we would very much like to hear from you. For an informal discussion please contact Eugene McDaid on +44 (0)121 616 3475 and to apply, please send a CV and cover letter to eMcDaid@pararecruit.com Other information to support recruitment: The post holder works as part of a skilled team supporting our academic and industry partners with their genomics projects. We will appoint individuals to build a team with complementary expertise in bioinformatics, data analysis, and statistical genetics/genomics. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]