Bioinformatics Analyst

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
• End Date if Temporary:
• Hours Per Week: 35
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building:
• Salary Range: 85,000.00 - 105,000.00

Position Summary

Under the supervision of the lead data scientists and Bioinformatics Director, initiate and complete established data processing pipelines while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Work with our Bioinformatics Director to research, design, develop and test new next-generation-sequencing (NGS) bioinformatics pipelines.

• Ensure proficiency in all routine bioanalytical pipelines and data processing algorithms used in the Laboratory of Personalized Genomic Medicine (PGM).

• Facilitate data transfer onto shared server or encrypted external hard‐drives for clinical review by directors, researchers or clinicians.

• Perform backup, storage and purging of sequencing files (e.g., copying, transferring and filing; periodic clearing out of analytical servers).

• Monitor backups of data generated by various instruments across the laboratory.

• Work with senior staff and central IT to establish protocols regarding, and participate in the monitoring, documentation and quality assurance of the above listed activities.

• Strategize with leadership to ensure data management and any future bioinformatics developments in PGM adheres to strict regulatory oversight.

• Perform other informatics/bioinformatics tasks as determined by laboratory leadership.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, mathematical science, or data science or equivalent in education and experience, plus three years of related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of commonly used bioinformatics tools and algorithms, writing pipelines for analysis of NGS datasets generated using Illumina sequencing platforms.

• Strong programming and analytical skills.

• Thorough understanding of NGS experimental design, data quality control, genome annotations from major bioinformatics resources (EMBL, NCBI),

• High proficiency in scripting languages such as Shell, Python, Perl, and R in an academic or industrial environment.

Other Requirements

• Knowledge of programming languages: Bash, R, Perl, Python

• Operating Systems: Linux and Windows system

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