Associate Bioinformatician - Liver

The Associate Bioinformatician manages and organizes large databases, and conducts statistical and genomic analysis. Uses software to gather, store, manipulate and analyzes research data.

The Associate Bioinformatician will work with a group of researchers/biologists on innovative genomic analyses of structural variation, epigenetics, and gene expression in an integrated environment combining experimental and bioinformatics approaches to human disease. The individual will support research projects by delivering bioinformatics services for bio-medical data from cutting-edge genomic technologies

The ideal candidate will have strong statistical and programming proficiencies with proven expertise in genomic analysis.

• Designs and implements bioinformatics tools and processes.

• Identifies and resolves technical issues and proposes upgrades to current software.

• Develop projects and work independently on a variety of bioinformatics analysis projects.

• Manages databases, conducts statistical and genomic analysis, and participates in the preparation of manuscripts and presentations.

• May be involved in sequence and structural analysis, data mining, or statistical modeling.

• May collaborate with wet-bench biologists and work independently to analyze data derived from several types of projects using microarrays and high-throughput sequencing.

• May conducts analysis of microarray and high-throughput sequencing data, genome sequence analysis, experimental design and statistical analysis.

• Other related duties as assigned.

• B.S. in Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics, Computer Sciences, Statistics or related discipline. M.S. in related field preferred.

• Minimum 1 year of experience in research environment, 2-3 years preferred