Bioinformatics Scientist

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Job date: 2017-02-27
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Company : WAVE Life Sciences 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
WAVE is looking for a knowledgeable and highly motivated individual who will help design and build the next generation of software tools for the development of oligonucleotide therapeutics and genomic analysis. This will include the development of novel databases of biological and clinical genomics data , as well as processes and dedicated pipelines/workflows that empower scientists to generate novel insights and drive the drug discovery pipeline . This person will have : a strong coding and web development background , experience working as part of interdisciplinary teams of chemists and biological scientists , and an understanding of core principals of information management and integration in a biopharmaceutical setting.

Domain expertise:

-Strong statistical background (classical & Bayesian techniques).

-Familiarity with biological & genomic databases , and methods for programmatic access to such (e.g., Bioconductor packages).

-Insights on human genetics on target validation.

-Understanding of principals of short oligonucleo tide design.

-NGS data processing and statistical algorithms for inference (RNA- seq , WGS, etc ).

-Data production workflow design, evaluation/validation and implementation.

-Understanding of the principals of database use (Oracle & graphical Db) , and data warehousing & data lake concepts.

-Web development; deployment of algorithmic tools.

-Understanding of common chemical structure representation formats ( sdf , Mol , In c hi , HELM, Rxn , etc ) .

-Familiarity with laboratory robotics programming .

-Taxonomy/ ontology development and practical use.


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