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Opportunity: PRISM Bioinformatics Specialist @ Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School -- Singapore
Submitted by Steve Rozen; posted on Thursday, May 12, 2016
BACKGROUND
SingHealth Duke-NUS Institute of PRecISion Medicine (PRISM) is the institutional flagship initiative of SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School that aims to drive, promote and standardize the use of Precision Medicine and Precision Health for improving patient care, focusing on diseases relevant to Asian populations. Among our various projects, we are developing SPECTRA; a multi-dimensional database of healthy Asian normality incorporating genomic, clinical, lifestyle, and imaging data. Targeting 5,000 healthy volunteers, SPECTRA will serve as an invaluable reference database for disease-oriented studies at SingHealth/Duke-NUS and across the nation.
RESPONSIBILITIES
We are seeking a Bioinformatics Specialist who will play an instrumental role in building PRISM's production analytics platform. Among others, you will be responsible for implementing cutting-edge bioinformatics analysis pipelines that scale across distributed computing environments, and into the cloud. You will also be using your background and experience in machine learning to develop analytics pipelines that will derive insights for precision medicine from complex and heterogeneous datasets. Finally, you will also play a key role in helping build a genome-phenome data warehouse that will enable all our various datasets to reside in one place and enable integrative analysis.
REQUIREMENTS
Educational/Professional Qualifications:
- PhD/MSc in Computational or Life Sciences (e.g. computer science, computational biology, genetics, biology)
Relevant Experience:
- Degree or proven experience in bioinformatics and statistics
- Previous experience on handling next generation sequencing pipelines and gene expression analysis projects
- Familiarity with contemporary high-performance computing (HPC) and big data analytics methodologies: Cloud computing, containerization, distributed and parallel computing
- Knowledge of statistical and machine learning approaches, as well as big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark is desirable.
- Must be well-versed in the Unix environment, Perl/Python and R.
Personal Characteristics & Behaviours:
- Ability to work as a team player
- Effective communication of work-related activities to upper management, peers, and peers and management in collaborating organizations
- Able to effectively manage multiple ongoing priorities
- Flexibility in learning new technical skill and new areas of biomedicine
LOCALE
National Heart Centre, Singapore
HOW TO APPLY
Email wengkhong [dot] lim [at] duke-nus [dot] edu [dot] sg with CV, copies of up to three recent papers, and, if a recent graduate, a copy of your university transcripts (courses and grades). Please indicate "PRISM Bioinformatics applicant" in your subject line.
DEADLINE
Position open 6 May 2016 until filled
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