Bioinformatics Scientist

Job Description:
Johnson Service Group is contracting a Scientist III (Bioinformatics)- Austin, TX. (Year contract).

Minimum Qualifications:

• MS. or higher in Bioinformatics, Biomedical engineering, Computer science/engineering or related fields.
• MS degree in Molecular biology with 3+ years of working experiences in bioinformatics field will also be considered.
• Strong knowledge of sequence analysis and bioinformatics tools and public databases, e.g. IGV, BLAST, Ensembl, NCBI, UCSC Genome browser, OMIM, COSMIC etc.
• 3+ years of Software development skills and experience.
• Strong development skills Python/Perl experience is needed.
• Strong expertise working in a Linux/Unix environment.
• Good understanding of software design and development cycle.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Product development and / or industry experience in a multi-disciplinary Biotech environment is a plus.
• Knowledge of gene expression profiling/clustering algorithms, visualization and R-Bioconductor packages is highly desirable.
• Experience with Software production tools (IDE, source control, and document tracking) and Test Management (HP QC, JIRA) is a plus.
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with scientists, engineers and software developers and be detail oriented and self-driven.

Job Type: Contract

Required education: Master's

Required experience:

• bioinformatics field: 3 years
• Software Development: 3 years

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Requeriments :

• M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
• M.Sc. or higher Degree in Computer Science
• Master's Degree in Engineering

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics Databases
• Lunix/Unix
• Programing in Python
• Programming in PERL
• Software Design

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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Additional Info:

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