Job Description:
Our ideal candidate is the type of person who constantly wants to push the boundary of what is impossible to possible. We are working in a field and creating a technology with functionalities that have never existed before. Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Genomics has evolved tremendously. In fact, it’s been commercial and helping to change and save lives for quite some time. What’s needed next, though, is to help more users make actionable insights faster and easier. In short, there’s a strong need to focus on human engagement. The best part of the story, though, is that this is all focused on changing and saving lives. And with the right user-focused experiences these insights drive immediate action. WuXi NextCODE is a sought after and respected leader in this space. While we continue to improve our already-commercial offerings, we are committed to creating industry-leading, world-class, and user-focused product experiences. These include experiences across the spectrum from research to clinical to consumer. Users include bioinformatics experts, researchers, genetic counselors, physicians, patients, consumers, families, and more. The geographies we serve span span the globe, including China, USA, Qatar, the UK, and more. By unlocking the unique talents of a varied pool of individuals, we foster the kind of collaboration and innovation that yield truly great work. -We have clear, professional and respectful communication with everyone -We are all responsible for cutting-edge innovation -We are a TEAM -We balance critical thinking with executionWe care about employee’s professional and personal fulfillment -We are a entrepreneurial EEO employer committed to a diverse and dynamic workplace. Job Type: Full-time[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Our ideal candidate is the type of person who constantly wants to push the boundary of what is impossible to possible. We are working in a field and creating a technology with functionalities that have never existed before. Responsibilities:
- Working with our team of scientists and informatics staff on continued development and implementation of the tumor vs germline analysis based on our informatics pipeline applied to whole exome and whole genome datasets.
- Successful candidates will collaborate with our genetics and informatics groups to analyze our informatics systems for accuracy and content, and to further improve the analysis and interpretation of tumor-specific mutations.
- The successful candidate will be located at our Cambridge site and will work with both our genetics group and our informatics group.
- Additional duties include training of outside users and the testing and validation of new versions of the sequence analysis tools.
- PhD and a thorough understanding and experience in working with algorithms and software applications for high-throughput sequence data (NGS)
- 5-8 years' experience post PhD in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology.
- Expertise designing projects and experiments to solve biomedical questions.
- Strong experience of managing collaborative projects with multiple partners.
- Good international network in the computational biology community would be a huge advantage.
- Successful candidates will collaborate with our genetics and informatics groups to analyze our informatics systems for accuracy and content, and to further improve the analysis and interpretation of tumor-specific mutations.
- Significant programming experience is required (Unix shell programming and Python/Perl/Java/C++)
- Familiarity with some of the mainstream software packages for secondary analysis, such as BWA, GATK, MuTect, VarScan2, etc.
- Good overview of the key public reference databases for clinical variation data
- Additional experience in tumor biology and genetics would be an advantage.
- We also have openings in our Shanghai Office
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Biology
- Genetics
- Lunix/Unix
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Shell scripting
Areas :
Additional Info:
Genomics has evolved tremendously. In fact, it’s been commercial and helping to change and save lives for quite some time. What’s needed next, though, is to help more users make actionable insights faster and easier. In short, there’s a strong need to focus on human engagement. The best part of the story, though, is that this is all focused on changing and saving lives. And with the right user-focused experiences these insights drive immediate action. WuXi NextCODE is a sought after and respected leader in this space. While we continue to improve our already-commercial offerings, we are committed to creating industry-leading, world-class, and user-focused product experiences. These include experiences across the spectrum from research to clinical to consumer. Users include bioinformatics experts, researchers, genetic counselors, physicians, patients, consumers, families, and more. The geographies we serve span span the globe, including China, USA, Qatar, the UK, and more. By unlocking the unique talents of a varied pool of individuals, we foster the kind of collaboration and innovation that yield truly great work. -We have clear, professional and respectful communication with everyone -We are all responsible for cutting-edge innovation -We are a TEAM -We balance critical thinking with executionWe care about employee’s professional and personal fulfillment -We are a entrepreneurial EEO employer committed to a diverse and dynamic workplace. Job Type: Full-time[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]