Job ID: 608726852
Job date: 2018-02-26
End Date:
Company : Bristol-Myers Squibb Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-02-26
End Date:
Company : Bristol-Myers Squibb Country : Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly motivated computational scientist with academic and/or industry experience to join our Computational Genomics team in the Translational Bioinformatics group. The mandate of Computational Genomics is to design, develop, integrate and manage a computational platform for Bioinformatics analysts that adheres to reproducible research best practices. This platform is used to address defined translational questions and to provide access to multi-omic data sets from preclinical data, clinical trials as well as public genomics data including incoming digital health data, and to facilitate access by the scientific community at BMS. Team work skills are essential to work effectively with bioinformaticians, statisticians and software developers as we continue to extend the scope of our reproducible research analytics platform. Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious diseases. Our medicines are helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience, fibrosis and others. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies, and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time to achieve the best outcome. Through the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions, giving new hope to some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Each day, our employees around the world work together for patients – it drives everything we do.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
We are seeking a highly motivated computational scientist with academic and/or industry experience to join our Computational Genomics team in the Translational Bioinformatics group. The mandate of Computational Genomics is to design, develop, integrate and manage a computational platform for Bioinformatics analysts that adheres to reproducible research best practices. This platform is used to address defined translational questions and to provide access to multi-omic data sets from preclinical data, clinical trials as well as public genomics data including incoming digital health data, and to facilitate access by the scientific community at BMS. Team work skills are essential to work effectively with bioinformaticians, statisticians and software developers as we continue to extend the scope of our reproducible research analytics platform. Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the development, management and support of our core reproducible research analytics platform.
- Collaborate with IT experts to expand the Bioinformatics cloud computing infrastructure using our guidelines of reproducible research.
- Initiate and plan strategies to develop a framework to utilize digital health data within the context of genomics data.
- Collaborate with bioinformaticians, statisticians, biologists, and clinicians to identify critical questions that may be addressed via computational approaches.
- Develop an extension of our reproducible research framework to capture the start-to-end data processing of NGS sets including RNA-Seq, Exome and Whole Genome Sequencing, single cell sequencing.
- Ph.D. or Masters with 3+ years of relevant industry or academia experience is required. Education should be in the fields of Computer Science, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, or related disciplines.
- Functional fluency in at least one programming language (Python, Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C++) is required, and knowledge of additional languages is desirable.
- Knowledge of R is required.
- Ability to develop novel software to address scientific problems defined by research collaborators is required. Additionally, the ability to independently identify problems or new opportunities is required.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills are essential in order to enable working across organizations.
- Sufficient knowledge of open source and commercial packages is required to recognize when existing software solutions are relevant.
- Ability to work in a Linux environment is required.
- Familiarity with statistical methods is desirable.
- Primary authorship of published open source code is highly desirable.
- Extensive experience in cloud computing including familiarity of Amazon’s Cloud Web Services is desirable.
- Prior work in data integration, graph theory, semantic systems and/or published research on pharmaceutical disease areas is also desirable.
Requeriments :
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Bioinformatics
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in computational biology
- M.Sc. or higher Degree in Computer Science
Skills :
- JavaScript
- Lunix/Unix
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programing Skills
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- Statistics
Areas :
Additional Info:
Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines for patients with serious diseases. Our medicines are helping millions of patients around the world in disease areas such as oncology, cardiovascular, immunoscience, fibrosis and others. We have built a sustainable pipeline of potential therapies, and are leveraging translational medicine and data analytics to understand how we can deliver the right medicine to the right patient at the right time to achieve the best outcome. Through the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, we also promote health equity and seek to improve health outcomes of populations disproportionately affected by serious diseases and conditions, giving new hope to some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Each day, our employees around the world work together for patients – it drives everything we do.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]