BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide bioinformatics support for RNA-Seq analysis in a large and dynamic laboratory – 50%
• Provide support for projects related to microbial detection and discovery – 30%
• Manage databases – 10%
• Contribute to publications and research grants – 5%
• Perform other related duties as assigned – 5%

REQUIREMENTS

• Advanced knowledge of bioinformatics, statistics, systems biology, including biological pathway and network analysis, with working knowledge of writing pipelines for analysis of gene expression data from Illumina sequencing platform.
• Thorough knowledge of NGS experimental design, data quality control, mapping software such as Bowtie, BWA or STAR, normalization and clustering methods, Tuxedo Suite tools such as Tophat and Cufflinks, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Ingenuity Pathway analysis, and UCSC genome browser.
• Experience with genome annotations from major bioinformatics resources (NCBI, UCSC).
• Ability to work in Unix environments consisting of high-performance clusters.
• Advanced understanding of multi-threading tools (SGE, MPI), resource management, and allocation.
• Broad knowledge scripting languages, such as Shell, Python, Perl, and R in an academic or industrial environment. Proficiency in R and Bioconductor packages is desirable.

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