Scientist, Computational Biology

Posted on by Micaela Brun
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Job date: 2018-03-21
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Company : R&D Partners 

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Role : Research Scientist 


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Job Description:
Seeking a scientist to join our vibrant interdisciplinary team to develop and facilitate interpretation of complex next-generation sequencing data from tumor xenografts and derived single-cells. The right candidate will share our passion for pioneering new solutions, continual improvement, and uncompromising quality in research.

DUTIES:

  • Adapt open source tools and/or develop visualization methods to enable bench scientists to query, display and interpret NGS data types. These include RNA-expression from single-cells and bulk tissues, variant data from exome sequencing, copy-number data from whole genome sequencing, and epigenetic data.
  • Facilitate data sharing/management from internal and open-source based databases.
  • Ability to integrate laboratory instrument metadata to databases
SKILLS:
  • Proficiency in shell scripting, Django/Python, R/Shiny, SQL and JavaScript. Java considered a plus.
  • Comfortable working in Linux and Docker environments.
  • General knowledge of NGS technologies, sequence analysis tools and public visualization resources.
  • Experience with Amazon EC2 cloud resources; e.g. S3, EC2, Lambda and others.
  • Highly self-motivated and enjoy working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills
  • Able to critically structure data.
  • Possess in-depth knowledge in some area of data visualization
  • Understands fundamental scientific problems and can apply knowledge to research and development projects and problems in a positive manner.
  • Contributes individually as well as on cross functional teams.
  • Responsible for more complex assignments and for more than one project.

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