Bioinformatics Analyst

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Job date: 2018-06-28
End Date: 2018-08-27

Company : NAVICAN GENOMICS INC 

Country : United States 

Role : Other 


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Job Description:
NAVICAN is seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatics Analyst to join our team and help us in leveraging cutting-edge laboratory and bioinformatics processes to help provide next generation care and treatment guidance for late-stage cancer patients. The position will work closely with the scientific and clinical production team at NAVICAN to deploy and manage our bioinformatics pipelines, providing support to triage, disposition, and resolve data processing issues. Analysts on our team will work under the supervision of our senior bioinformaticians to ensure maximum quality of testing and help us in our commitment to continuously improve our processes.

The successful candidate must be a high energy, analytical, hard-working team player with an entrepreneurial spirit, who is talented, hands-on, and highly ethical. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated successful experience in bioinformatics or computational biology in an oncology, healthcare, or life sciences regulated environment.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Support testing and laboratory production using our established data platforms.
  • Perform best-practices genomics data analysis using standard pipelines at scale in order to test hypotheses and identify patterns in genomic data.
  • Assist in the deployment of novel analytical methods for improving therapy guidance for patients and oncologists.
  • Aid in the application of data process improvements to increase quality and reduce turn-around times in the laboratory.
Education and Experience:
  • B.S. or M.S. in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or related fields with a focus on Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) and Genomics preferred.
  • 1-2 years relevant experience preferred
  • Expertise or familiarity with command line interface
  • Experience with at least one scripting language (python preferred)
  • Experience with human genomics data analysis with standard toolsets
  • Knowledge of basic and advanced genomic analysis tools (GATK, Sention, Bedtools, Samtools, etc.)
  • Knowledge of machine learning, data analysis, and/or general statistics.


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Additional Info:
NAVICAN Genomics, Inc. delivers precision cancer care. All patients deserve access to precision cancer care - the right therapy at the right time to ensure better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs. Today many people don’t get the precision therapy they need, and with the exceptional team of professionals we are building, we believe we can do better. Based on proven processes developed through years of experience and clinical best practices of Intermountain Healthcare, NAVICAN was created to transform advances in precision medicine into precision cancer care for patients everywhere that advanced therapies are available.

Expert prioritized therapy recommendations and experienced treatment navigators will simplify the path to drug and clinical trial access. At the same time, we’ll help patients and their caregivers navigate often frustrating administrative processes. We’re driven by an impatience to make more precision therapy options available to more cancer patients. If you have a passion to help people, a desire to grow, and you excel at what you do, join us at NAVICAN and make a positive impact on the world.

NAVICAN is an EOE/AA employer and offers competitive salary and benefits package.

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