Data Scientist (Bioinformatics)

Posted on by Micaela Brun
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Job date: 2018-05-26
End Date: 2018-07-25

Company : ESAC Inc 

Country : United States 

Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
As a Data Scientist (Bioinformtics), the successful candidate will perform bioinformatics support, data quality assurance and curation activities for our clients at the National Institutes of Health and other scientific organizations. This position will be responsible for the ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) process within a cancer research team and will assist in interpreting, curating, and harmonizing clinical, genomic, and proteomic data associated with tumor characterization.

Principal Responsibilities:

  • Serve as bioinformatics expert for new and existing projects for our clients.
  • Be a member of team building software applications and scientific databases for life sciences.
  • Provide bioinformatics services to assist scientific problem solving in a broad range of research topics. Typical daily work might include custom data processing, proteomic data processing, genomic sequence, SNP and gene expression analysis.
  • Assist with the data curation activities for the scientific databases including working with scientists, publication research and verification.
  • Write custom scripts and develop programs in Perl, Python, R, Java etc.
  • Knowledge of cell biology, pathway analysis, proteogenomics, or cancer biology a plus.
Minimum Qualifications:
  • M.S. or equivalent degree (Ph.D. preferred) with combined education and experience in bioinformatics. Applicants with education background in bioinformatics or related topics (e.g. mathematics and computer science/engineering) plus significant combined education and experience in one or more of biology, biochemistry, genetics, physiology, bioinformatics will be considered.
  • 2+ years of bioinformatics experience including programming in Perl/Python/R/Java
  • Knowledge or experience with high throughput data and data curation activities including proteomics, microarray gene-expression, genotyping, next generation sequencing, etc
  • Experience in translating customer requirements into technical requirements.
  • Ability to identify, prioritize, and execute tasks to meet critical project deadlines.
  • Knowledge of Unix/Linux, Windows, Scripting (Perl etc)
  • Experience with relational databases like Oracle, MySQL, etc.
  • Independent problem solver that enjoys collaborative research
  • Excellent communication and people skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with the challenges of managing large amounts of data and large number of samples.
  • Experience in design and execution of analytical workflows and the display/visualization of results.
  • Formal coursework or advanced training in one or more of the following: biology, genomics, proteomics, genetics, biochemistry, bioinformatics, software engineering.
  • Familiarity with data visualization, graphing software tools.
  • Knowledge in scientific and statistical software development, e.g. implementation of statistical tests and computing algorithms using a mainstream programming language.

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