Job ID: 646277575
Job date: 2018-05-22
End Date: 2018-07-21
Company : Genosity Country : United States Role : Research Scientist
Job date: 2018-05-22
End Date: 2018-07-21
Company : Genosity Country : United States Role : Research Scientist
Job Description:
Specific Responsibilities
Additional Info:
For more iformation, please visit http://genosity.com/careers/ Genosity is a biotechnology company focused on providing tools and services for clinical and research applications of genomics in healthcare space. Our mission is to unlock the power of precision medicine in improving patient care by providing a technology platform to advance genomics and facilitate collaborative research. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]
Specific Responsibilities
- Rapid prototyping of novel algorithms
- Develop best practices for analysis of NGS data including optimization of parameters, and consensus approaches across various tools
- Benchmark the Genosity toolkit in various competitions and challenges
- Work closely with the other staff to identify gaps in variant detection and annotation algorithms in current pipeline
- Maintain a high profile in the NGS and Bioinformatics community through publications, conference presentations and collaborations
- Develop and or apply machine learning techniques to improve variant pathogencity prediction algorithms.
- BS or MS in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
- 4+ years professional bioinformatics development experience
- Proficiency in at least two major scripting languages (Perl/Python, R, Java, etc) and Unix/Linux shell
- Familiarity with processing NGS or other high-throughput genomic data, plus publicly available genomics tools and data repositories such as ClinVar, Exome Variant Server, 1000 Genomes, TCGA and DGV.
- Experience in bioinformatics resources and tools such as BLAST, BWA, GATK, dbGaP, Clustalw, NCBI, EBI, Pfam, COG, GO, KEGG, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and in a team environment
- Demonstrated problem solving and communication skills
Requeriments :
Skills :
- Bioinformatics
- Lunix/Unix
- Machine Learning
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Programing in Python
- Programming in Java
- Programming in PERL
- Programming in R
Areas :
Additional Info:
For more iformation, please visit http://genosity.com/careers/ Genosity is a biotechnology company focused on providing tools and services for clinical and research applications of genomics in healthcare space. Our mission is to unlock the power of precision medicine in improving patient care by providing a technology platform to advance genomics and facilitate collaborative research. [Click Here to Access the Original Job Post]