Bioinformatics Associate

Job ID: 346456383
Job date: 2017-05-20
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Company : The Fountain Group 

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Job Description:
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Details For The Positions Are As Follows

My name is Daniel and I represent The Fountain Group. We are a national staffing firm and I am currently seeking a Bioinformatics Associate for a prominent client of ours. This position is located in Cambridge, MA.

SCOPE OF POSITION:

-Contractual Position: 14+ months, extension based on performance

-The Applied Computational Biology team supports functional genomics projects across entire drug pipeline from target discovery through pre-clinical and clinical development as well as manufacturing

-This position will work closely with scientists to design genomic experiments that incorporate NextGen Sequencing approaches (e.g., RNA-Seq, targeted amplicon sequencing) and will employ cutting edge bioinformatics approaches to support discovery of novel drug targets, biomarkers, compound mechanism of action, and improved quality control in therapeutic protein manufacturing

-Work closely with the computational biology/genomics group, data sciences team, wet lab scientists and key stakeholders to understand immediate requirements in analyzing large scale biological network data

-Analyze RNASeq and proteomic data and apply open source R packages to create and annotate biological networks that will be used to drive target and biomarker discovery for drug programs

Requirements:

-Experience with network analysis algorithms or graph theory, and an understanding of how biological networks are derived from genomic and proteomic data, is required

-Experience with one or more of the following is required: Python, R, Java, Bash, Perl, and Relational Databases

-Experience analyzing large scale genomic data such as RNAseq, DNASeq, proteomics, etc is desired

-Knowledge of various biological databases (BioGRID, String, HumanNet) is desired


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Additional Info:
Daniel Beechner | Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant

Daniel.Beechner@TheFountainGroup.com

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Company DescriptionHeadquartered in Tampa, FL, with operations in all 5 regions, The Fountain Group is a Contingent Labor Resource Provider. The Fountain Group services clients directly, clients with an internal contingent labor program, and clients with an external managed service program.

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