Bioinformatics Specialist/Research Scientist

BIOINFORMATICS SPECIALIST/RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Civil and Environmental Engineering, to join an interdisciplinary academic lab that studies microbial ecology, with a focus on marine cyanobacteria and the phage that infect them.  Responsibilities include working both independently and collaboratively with lab members to define a set of user needs for accessing, querying, and analysing data; organizing diverse datasets and associated metadata for inclusion into a relational database; updating, developing, and testing pipelines for analyzing genomic, transcriptomic, and metagenomic data; developing and testing Web-based data analysis tools and user interfaces; and working with a software engineer at the Joint Genome Institute to integrate datasets into a novel Web-based resource for data integration, analysis, and display. BIOINFORMATICS SPECIALIST/RESEARCH SCIENTIST, Civil and Environmental Engineering, to join an interdisciplinary academic lab that studies microbial ecology, with a focus on marine cyanobacteria and the phage that infect them.  Responsibilities include working both independently and collaboratively with lab members to define a set of user needs for accessing, querying, and analysing data; organizing diverse datasets and associated metadata for inclusion into a relational database; updating, developing, and testing pipelines for analyzing genomic, transcriptomic, and metagenomic data; developing and testing Web-based data analysis tools and user interfaces; and working with a software engineer at the Joint Genome Institute to integrate datasets into a novel Web-based resource for data integration, analysis, and display. REQUIRED:  a master’s or Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics, biology, or related field; experience with database-driven website development and relational databases, e.g., MySQL; at least two years of experience working with large-scale bioinformatics data sets; solid knowledge of bioinformatics analysis methods, available tools, and data repositories; proficiency with the UNIX environment; expert-level knowledge of at least one scripting language, e.g., Perl or Python; and good organizational, communication, and multitasking skills.  Must be comfortable communicating across fields within the biological sciences and computational biology and working with database experts and software engineers in a dynamic and collaborative environment.  Experience with marine systems and/or cyanobacterial genomes is a plus, as is experience implementing web-based data visualization tools.  Experience with metagenomic data sets, transcriptomics, and large-scale DNA sequencing data would be particularly valued.  Job #11516 9/5/14 MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, veteran status, or disability.