Bioinformatics Scientist

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Job date: 2017-07-21
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Company : Sinopia Biosciences 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
We seek a talented and independent individual with extensive expertise in machine learning and bioinformatics to join our team. This individual will play a key scientific role in expanding and developing Sinopia’s computational platform. They will leverage new computational strategies and disparate data types to better understand drug safety and repurpose drugs for unmet medical needs.

Requirements:

  • PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or Systems Biology with 0-3 years of relevant experience in an academic or industry setting (new PhD grads are encouraged to apply)
  • Strong background in implementing and developing machine learning algorithms
  • Experience with developing data infrastructure and software; experience programming in Python, R, and/or C/C++
  • Background in developing and implementing pipelines for analyzing high-throughput “omics” datasets (such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in English
  • Strong quantitative and problem solving skills
Preferred;
  • Experience with network and/or systems biology techniques
  • Experience with cloud computing and large-scale parallelization
  • Experience with drug response and pharmacology
Job Type: Full-time

Required education: Doctorate

Required experience: relevant: 3 years


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Sinopia Biosciences (www.sinopiabio.com) is a San Diego, CA based startup focused on developing technologies and therapeutics that improve drug safety. The company develops and applies proprietary computational biology and bioinformatics tools to identify the molecular mechanisms of adverse effects of major therapeutics. With this knowledge, we develop strategies for making therapeutics safer, including developing companion drugs to lower the incidence of adverse drug reactions.

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