Data Scientist

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Job date: 2017-02-22
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Company : Veterans Sourcing Group 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
-The programmer analyst will assist in designing software and analytical tools for supporting Bioinformatics and scientific research projects.

-This would require development or implementation of new or existing applications,tools.

-This position will work closely with research investigators as well as project leads to analyze the requirements and implement the systems to support various in-house research projects.

-Data analysis with tools like SpotFire or SAS-JMP are essential.

-The position is suited for collaborative multi-disciplinary setting. The candidate should be highly enthusiastic, collaborative and willing to help Scientists by adjusting priorities appropriately.

Position Requirements:

-This is a mid level position with a minimum of 4 years of experience handling Bioinformatics data sets in a research or industry setting.

-Programming experience in XML, Java Scripts, PERL scripting, statistical tools is required.

-Strong working knowledge of various sequence and alignment algorithms like BLAST, FASTA and prediction tools with reference to HMMs, SVMs is necessary.

-Develop algorithms for data analyses and visualization.

-Research and recommend appropriate tools for informatics algorithms.

-Exposure to SQL or Oracle database models for sequence and sequence properties storage would be helpful.

-The candidate should have some knowledge about antibodies as therapeutics. Previous work experience in antibody-based informatics is a plus.

Skills:

-The team has been tasked with data analysis pipeline establishment for Next Gen Sequencing efforts for Hybridoma and B-Cell Cloning techniques.

-The team would augment staff appropriately to fill the gaps and help in project delivery.

-This position would be responsible for hands-on antibody sequence data analysis and annotation for antibody screening and discovery.

Minimum Qualifications:

-Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Science (with Biology as minor) or related discipline.

-Appropriate education and/or experience may be substituted on equivalent basis.

-Masters or Ph.D. in Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Mathematics or related discipline

-Hands-on experience developing Computational tools for sequence analyses from Next Gen and Sanger platforms

-Extensive experience in scripting languages like PERL, Python etc., and analyses tools like R, SAS JMP etc.

-Knowledge of antibodies in drug discovery process

-Familiarity with web interface development and server-side programming

-Knowledge about Cloud computation and access models.

Experience:

-Minimum of 3-4 years of experience in an industry or academic setting.

-Experience with a number of programming languages and statistical tools and Good software engineering practices like version control is desired.(Preferred)


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