BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide bioinformatics support for ongoing research in virus detection and discovery in a large and dynamic laboratory – 80%
• Contribute to publications and research grants – 15%
• Perform other related duties as assigned – 5%

REQUIREMENTS

• At least two to three years of experience in writing pipelines and analysis of next generation sequencing data especially from Illumina platform. The candidate should also be well versed in data QC, mapping, de-novo assembly and BLAST as well as understanding of algorithms behind them. Experience with the analysis of RNA-Seq data is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of genetics and molecular biology as well as practical knowledge of major bioinformatics tools and resources: NCBI, UCSC etc.
• The position requires the ability to work in Unix environments consisting of high performance clusters. The candidate should have a good understanding of multi-threading tools (SGE, MPI), resource management and allocation.
• At least two to three years of academic or industrial experience working with scripting languages, such as shell, Perl, Python or R. Desired qualifications include: applied mathematics/statistics/biostatistics background.
• The candidate will perform other duties as assigned.

• Requires a bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, or computer science and at least four years experience in bioinformatics.

• Master's degree with 3 years of related experience

COMPENSATION

HOW TO APPLY

POLICY