Bioinformatics Technician

Job Description:
The candidate will participate in meeting the needs of SNP-related human molecular genetic studies, population genetic studies, bioinformatics, genomics and computational studies.

• Perform computer-based research using biomedical databases.
• Running existing bioinformatic programs for data analysis.
• Development of custom data extraction and analysis programs as driven by project needs.
• Writing computer programs for systematic computational data analysis.
• Installation and modifications of new softwares for computational research and statistical analysis. Contribute to development of existing softwares.
• Coordinate with bench scientists and computational scientists to handle multiple concurrent analysis projects.
• Perform SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) database search, annotation and computational analysis on disease-related target genes and genomic regions.
• Perform computational analysis to configure haplotypes, LD (linkage disequilibrium) block structure of the genomic region on high-throughput genotype data from databases (such as HapMap) and experiments.
• Maintenance of the human genomic DNA samples and cells as well as the corresponding sample databases.
• Perform high-throughput bench-based novel SNP discovery and SNP genotyping experiments.
• Routine maintenance of lab equipments.
• Participates in laboratory meetings to discuss scientific data
• Assists in orienting and aiding trainees (student and/or other post doctoral fellows) in performing laboratory techniques and data analysis, and provides guidance, advice and assistance.
• Prepares draft reports of study related findings.
• Orders supplies and maintains appropriate inventory levels of supplies.

• MD or MS in Biomedical sciences, with working experience on haplotype, ancestry, imputation, genomics, high-throughput data analysis and database is required. Fluent computer programming ability is required.
• Degree must be from a regionally accredited college or university.

• Working experience on programming. Proficient on programming languages, especially Scala, MATLAB, Linux shell and Java (JDBC, JSP, servlets, Swing or other GUI toolkit).
• Working experiences on haplotype analysis and haplotyping.
• Working experiences on genetic and genomic ancestry analysis.
• Working experiences on data imputation.
• Working experiences on various big biomedical and genomic databases.
• Working experiences on HRC, KGP, Hapmap.
• Ability to quickly master new programming languages related for databases.
• Experience with the bioinformatics software and package: FastQC, Samtools, UCSC Database, Tophat.
• Molecular biology knowledge
• Medical knowledge.
• Ability to work collegially with others as part of a collaborative team, especially communicate with researchers on the basic medical sciences.
• Ability to provide reports of related studies and findings.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to perform tasks precisely, efficiently and handle a variety of tasks with minimum supervision.

Requeriments :

• M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics

Skills :

• Bioinformatics
• Genetics
• genomic
• Lunix/Unix
• molecular biology
• Programing Skills
• Programming in Java
• Programming in Matlab
• Shell scripting

Areas :

• Bioinformatics

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