Computational Biologist / Bioinformatics Scientist

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Job date: 2018-04-17
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Company : Tech Observer 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
Summary:

  • We seek an experienced Bioinformatics Scientist / Computational Biologist to join a dynamic group dedicated to the development of cancer therapeutics.
  • In this role you will proactively engage with a team of computational and bench biologists to gather requirements and to design and to specify modifications to the open-source cancer genomics cbioportal to enable Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
  • Interface with scientists from Company, academic instructions, and third party software developers to clarify and prioritize requirements as well as mock-up designs to satisfy those requirements
  • Document requirements and communicate the design in such a way that the software that is delivered will meet needs of computational and bench biologists
  • Suggest any computational, statistical, machine learning or modeling capability needed to achieve the goals above
  • Curate clinical and pre-clinical datasets (both syntactic and semantic) to populate the portal with content
  • Experience: 3 to 6 years.
Skills:
  • An ideal candidate will be collaborative, self-directed and possess
  • Experience in software requirements gathering, documentation, design, and development
  • Deep hands-on experience in cancer genomics is required
  • Deep hands on-experience in Gene Set Enrichment Analysis is required
  • Deep hands on-experience in the open-source cbioportal application is preferred
  • Deep hands on-experience in data curation is required
  • Experience at integrating publicly or commercially available genetic, genomic, and interaction datasets is a plus
  • Statistical programming skills like, SAS/S-plus, R/ bioconductor and pipeline pilot or equivalents are a plus
Education:

M.S. or PhD. in Bioinformatics, Computer Science or related fields with a minimum of 3-years research (academia or industry) developing software for bioinformatics applications and analysis of cancer genomics and genetics data.

Job Type: Contract

Required experience:

  • data analysis of cancer genomics and genetics data: 3 years
  • developing software for bioinformatics applications: 3 years
  • cancer genomics, gene set enrichment analysis, data curation: 3 years
Required education:Master's


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