Bioinformatics Associate III

Job ID: 17-01039
Job date: 2017-03-13
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Company : Ascent Services Group 

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Role : Other 


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Job Description:
Analyze high throughput genomic data in collaboration with the group in Physiological Chemistry. Work with large and diverse genomic datasets with a range of NGS technologies including: RNA-seq, ChIP-seq, ATAC-seq.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

-Writing R scripts for analysis and integration of NGS datasets.

-Analysis of RNA-seq datasets.

-Analysis of ChIP-seq datasets.

-Literature searches to identify published datasets, download, QC and analyze in the context of in-house data.

-Download, install and run external software for ATAC-seq/iCLIP analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

-PhD in bioinformatics, biostatistics, statistics; or master's degree with at least three years of experience working in a computational biology position.

-Familiarity working in a Linux.

-High level of proficiency with R programming language and or other scripting languages (Python, perl, etc.)

-Strong communication skills, ability to discuss results with both biologists and computational scientists.

-Experience working with genomic data (e.g. Microarrays, RNA-seq, ChIP-seq).

-Good data science practice, and understanding of data complexity.

Desired:

-Experience with Bioconductor packages for genomic bioinformatics.

-Experience in ChIP-seq data processing/analysis is a plus.


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Additional Info:
LOCATION: South San Francisco, CA

JOB TYPE: Contract

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