BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide analysis, consultation, and training services for data analysis, technical and scientific training and support for analyses and tools for variant analysis, annotation, function prediction, transcript profiling, and pathway and network analysis.
• Provide expertise on informatics software and tool development as the liaison between the researchers and the software development team to identify requirements, develop use cases, and identify analysis tools to meet the requirements and provide outreach for these products to researchers
• Develop pipelines to automate analysis, including use of HPC environments
• Provide molecular modeling, docking, and simulation informatics services to address structural biology questions involving both small molecules (cheminformatics) and macromolecules using a variety of techniques, including: modeling, folding, simulation/molecular dynamics, docking and virtual ligand screening, computational aspects of empirical structure determination techniques (e.g. X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy), and visualization.
• Provide evolutionary biology informatics services to compute evolutionary relationships of sequence data that can be used to understand the origins of pandemics, antimicrobial resistance, immune responses.
• Develop and deliver training seminars in biomedical informatics-related topics
• Prefer familiarity with cloud infrastructure for computing and market analysis of bioinformatics software
• Familiarity with latest experimental techniques used in biomedical research and current tools for such analysis

• Design, develop, test, and document analysis pipelines, biomedical tools, and databases to store, analyze, interpret, and visualize biomedical data using primarily open-source algorithms/software packages on distributed computing environments; provide support of these to end users.
• Create new and use existing algorithms and robust and secure software systems for bioinformatics, including composing, editing, and compiling open-source code
• Work within HPC environments and apply solutions to reduce bottlenecks associated with storage and management of data.
• Experience with machine learning, cloud computing, and data visualization
• Ability to work with open source as well as COTS software
• Support full lifecycle administration development and customization for in-house-developed (and COTS (currently LabWare) LIMS.

REQUIREMENTS

• Education and Experience – Ph.D. in life sciences with 2+ years/ MS in life sciences with 5+ years providing analysis, consultation and training services in biomedical informatics services in omics related to allergy, immunology and infectious disease research with demonstrated publication record of 3+ papers in bioinformatics within the last 4 years and experience in presenting results and supporting outreach

• Education and Experience – Background in bioinformatics, biology or related science with related publication(s) demonstrating the use or development of computational biology/bioinformatics/big-data/data science applications; B.S. (or other graduate degree with equivalent experience) in computer science, data science, or informatics and 3+ years of experience working with biomedical scientific data, including large-scale data and distributed storage/computing systems. At least 3 years of recent experience developing pipeline processing scripts or developing web applications with the following technologies/frameworks and software in an Agile Scrum environment:
  
  • Perl, Python, Bash Shell, HTML, CSS, XML, JSON, JavaScript; Java EE and JSP or PHP
  • Git and Github
  • Docker and/or other container packages; development of RESTful APIs
  • Apache and Apache Tomcat
  • Hibernate or related frameworks
  • Angular, Bootstrap, or Google Web Toolkit web development frameworks
  • MySQL or other relational database management systems
  • HPC computing environments with DRM systems such as SGE/OGE or Torque
  • Linux or Unix-based operating system

• Strong interpersonal, presentation, written, and oral communication skills to convey bioinformatics principles and concepts to non-specialists clearly, and advise on relevant software and tools
• Attention to detail, including time and project management skills, to document, track, update, and generate reports on ongoing projects
• Ability to work both independently and as part of an in-person and remote multi-disciplinary team with a high level of personal and professional drive and initiative

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