Bioinformatics Analyst

Job ID: 1074697926
Job date: 2019-05-08
End Date: 2019-07-07

Company : Albert Einstein College of Medicine 

Country : United States 

Role : Bioinformatics analyst 


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Job Description:
Founded in 1955, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) is one of the nation’s premier institutions for medical education, basic research and clinical investigation. A full-time faculty of some 2,000 conducts research, teaches, and delivers health care in every major biomedical specialty. The college has some 730 medical students, 193 Ph.D. students, 106 MD/Ph.D. students and 275 postdoctoral fellows.

The Department of Pediatrics-Genetics lab, using Next-Gen sequencing and molecular evolution, is seeking a Bioinformatics Analyst to work with a group of scientists studying human papillomavirus, microbiome and cervix neoplasia. The ideal candidate will have a background in biology, computer science and/or bioinformatics. He/She will be responsible for processing next-gen sequencing data, creating phylogenetic trees and maintaining data and pipelines.


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Position Responsibilities

Utilize existing pipelines to process and analyze high-throughput sequencing data, including bisulfite sequencing data.
Manage, organize all bioinformatics sequencing data in the lab. Including papillomavirus sequence, microbiome data, both 16S and other, and human genomic data
Construct phylogenic trees
The individual will be responsible for downloading large Fastq, BAM and/or Fasta files for analyses. Must have experience using existing software tools and modifying R scripts. Should be able to generate figures, and some statistical analyses. The lab routinely uses barcoding primers for multiplex NGS runs which require demultiplexing and analyses .

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