Senior Bioinformatics Programmer

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Job date: 2018-05-03
End Date: 2018-07-02

Company : Baylor College of Medicine 

Country : United States 

Role : Programmer 


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Job Description:
We are looking to fill the position of Bioinformatician within the CMMR. The Bioinformatician will be expected to lead metagenomic and statistical analyses of microbial community data sets derived from Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data.

  • Initiation/implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of analysis software in support of microbial ecology studies
  • Proactively providing data analysis support to multiple metagenomic sequencing projects
  • Coordination of data flow with a wide variety of external scientific collaborators
  • Tracking project data and reporting analysis results
  • Collaboration with the software engineering groups to define software requirements
  • Ability to plan and organize detailed projects with multiple tasks and deadline
  • Proven ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment
Required:
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Biological Sciences.
  • Three years experience in scientific programming with applications to genome research or a Master's degree in Computer Science or Biological Sciences and 1 year of directly related work experience.
  • Experience with Perl, HTML, CGI, relation databases and SQL.
  • Programming in a UNIX/LINUX environment.
Preferred:
  • Experience with C++ and programming using UNIX/LINUX clusters.
  • Experience with NexGen data and metagenomic analyses are strongly preferred
  • Broad knowledge of biology, especially microbial ecology and/or genetics
  • Experience with large genomic data sets (Next-generation sequence, genotyping, or expression data), data mining, and data analysis
  • Experience with UNIX and cluster computing
  • Perl, Ruby, or other scripting development experience
  • Experience with machine learning and/or artificial intelligence programming a plus


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