Bioinformatics Scientist – Hunter International – Research Triangle Park, NC

Job ID: 5635
Job date: 2016-06-17
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Company : Hunter International 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
Research Triangle Park, NC

Pay rate $34/hour

JOB DESCRIPTION:
At our site in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, we are seeking Bioinformatics scientists within the Integrated Trait Knowledge Function. This position will directly report to the Bioinformatics team leader at RTP. The scientist will work locally and globally with other researchers, computational biologists and bioinformaticians in providing data analysis support. The work will involve analyzing next generation sequencing and large scale genomic and phenotypic data. We expect the scientist to be involved on one or more of currently ongoing projects on gene expression analysis, genome sequence analysis, assembly and annotations leveraging information and knowledge creation from diverse genomics datasets and computational tools. In addition, the scientist will gain experience working as part of a multifunctional project team within a global sub-function and exposure to how business strategy drives R&D work within a corporation.

Key responsibilities will include working in one or more of the following areas:

Curation and management of large datasets, gathering end user requirements
Developing, optimizing and applying pipelines and algorithms for processing and analyzing biological data
Conducting independent data analysis and interpretation and generating reports as per specifications
Evaluating tools and coordinating efforts between the project teams and IT groups to define, validate and implement software for data management and analysis

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Qualifications in one of or more of the following:
Education: PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Molecular Biology or a related field with Bioinformatics analysis experience, or MS with 2 years’ experience

Background and experience working with:
Use of various bioinformatics and data analysis applications
Unix environment with basic to intermediate Unix skills, be proficient in one or more programming languages (Perl, Python)
Data curation, database design and development
Statistical analysis methods

Experience in one or more areas of computational biology is a plus:

Sequence related analysis, next generation sequence data analysis
Gene sequence optimization
Gene expression analysis, RNA-seq, microarray, proteomics
Genome sequence analysis, assembly and annotation
Metagenomics analysis
Comparative and phylo-genomics
Pathway and gene functional analysis
Phenotypic data analysis
Implementation of tools for genomic data integration and visualization


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