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Job Description

Conduct research using bioinformatics theory and methods in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. May design databases and develop algorithms for processing and analyzing genomic information, or other biological information.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-1029.01

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Bioinformatics Scientists”.

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Tasks for “Microarray Specialist”

Confer with departments such as marketing, business development, and operations to coordinate product development or improvement.
Recommend new systems and processes to improve operations.
Compile data for use in activities such as gene expression profiling, genome annotation, and structural bioinformatics.
Develop new software applications or customize existing applications to meet specific scientific project needs.
Manipulate publicly accessible, commercial, or proprietary genomic, proteomic, or post-genomic databases.
Communicate research results through conference presentations, scientific publications, or project reports.
Collaborate with software developers in the development and modification of commercial bioinformatics software.
Create novel computational approaches and analytical tools as required by research goals.
Create or modify web-based bioinformatics tools.
Keep abreast of new biochemistries, instrumentation, or software by reading scientific literature and attending professional conferences.
Direct the work of technicians and information technology staff applying bioinformatics tools or applications in areas such as proteomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and clinical bioinformatics.
Develop data models and databases.
Design and apply bioinformatics algorithms including unsupervised and supervised machine learning, dynamic programming, or graphic algorithms.
Test new and updated bioinformatics tools and software.
Instruct others in the selection and use of bioinformatics tools.
Improve user interfaces to bioinformatics software and databases.
Provide statistical and computational tools for biologically based activities such as genetic analysis, measurement of gene expression, and gene function determination.
Consult with researchers to analyze problems, recommend technology-based solutions, or determine computational strategies.
Analyze large molecular datasets such as raw microarray data, genomic sequence data, and proteomics data for clinical or basic research purposes.
Prepare summary statistics of information regarding human genomes.

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BioPerl
ClustalW
Public genomic databases
Illumina Laboratory Information Management System LIMS
Structured query language SQL
Apache Hadoop
Velvet
Tibco S-PLUS
RNA sequencing software
DNA sequencing software
GenBank
Primer3
C
Celera Assembler
ENSEMBL
Bioconductor
NCBI RefSeq
Extensible markup language XML
C++
BWA
GenePattern
R
Microsoft Excel
UNIX
Microsoft Visual C#
dbSNP
Web browser software
Practical extraction and reporting language Perl
Roche 454 Life Sciences GS Data Analysis
Python
Life Technologies SOLiD
PostgreSQL
Genedata Expressionist
Bowtie
JavaScript
The MathWorks MATLAB
TopHat
MySQL
Accelrys Pipeline Pilot
Life Technologies Vector NTI
BLAT
Cufflinks
Ruby
Linux
Relational database management software
Biomatters Geneious
Hypertext markup language HTML
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
SAS
Genome Analysis Toolkit GATK
TIBCO Spotfire S+