Job ID: 213195
Job date: 2017-09-13
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Company : The Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) Country : Role : Other
Job date: 2017-09-13
End Date:
Company : The Henry M. Jackson Foundation (HJF) Country : Role : Other
Job Description:
HJF is seeking a Senior Computational Biologist to support the Bioinformatics Core of the Collaborative Health Research Initiative Program (CHIRP) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. HJF provides scientific, technical and programmatic support services to CHIRP. CHIRP is a collaborative precision medicine research program between the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense with a focus on heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders. The Senior Computational Biologist will design and execute novel computational genomics and statistical analyses, e.g. mutation discovery and trait association, in large WGS cohorts as well as genome-wide RNA expression analysis, disease classification, and risk prediction. The Senior Computational Biologist will participate in genomics consortia projects, such as the Applied Proteogenomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes Network (APOLLO). Responsibilities:
Additional Info:
HJF is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents, in lieu of stated minimums, require the prior approval of the Director of Human Resources.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
HJF is seeking a Senior Computational Biologist to support the Bioinformatics Core of the Collaborative Health Research Initiative Program (CHIRP) at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) in Bethesda, Maryland. HJF provides scientific, technical and programmatic support services to CHIRP. CHIRP is a collaborative precision medicine research program between the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense with a focus on heart, lung, blood and sleep disorders. The Senior Computational Biologist will design and execute novel computational genomics and statistical analyses, e.g. mutation discovery and trait association, in large WGS cohorts as well as genome-wide RNA expression analysis, disease classification, and risk prediction. The Senior Computational Biologist will participate in genomics consortia projects, such as the Applied Proteogenomics Organizational Learning and Outcomes Network (APOLLO). Responsibilities:
- Performs genomic analysis of large cohorts (e.g. discovery, interpretation, and association of mutations, copy number variants, and structural variants)
- Develops novel generalized, and study specific genome analysis tools for WGS, RNA-seq, and proteomics data.
- Conducts data-driven and hypothesis-directed genomics research
- Provides computational biology and biostatistical analysis support to CHIRP investigators
- Contributes to reports of experimental results for publication in technical and peer-reviewed journals
- Provides collaborative assistance to USU personnel that require the incumbent's expertise May supervise junior informatics staff
- Completes other projects as needed
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Biostatistics
- Computational Biology
- genomic
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in C
- Programing in C++
- Programing in Python
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
- RNA-seq
- Statistics
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Additional Info:
HJF is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. Any qualifications to be considered as equivalents, in lieu of stated minimums, require the prior approval of the Director of Human Resources.[Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]