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Opportunity: BIOINFORMATICS SCIENTIST @ Monsanto--St. Louis, MO (US)
Submitted by Sherry Thorburn; posted on Friday, April 04, 2008
Imagine…teaming with the brightest minds.
When you're partnered with truly innovative individuals, you know it. Their passion is contagious & it inspires you to achieve some amazing things. We see it every day at Monsanto. An agricultural company, we use genomics, chemistry, biotechnologies & more to create breakthroughs that address on-farm challenges while reducing agriculture's overall impact on our environment. It's already brought us higher quality foods, animal feed, fiber & renewable fuels. With your talents - talents that will be enhanced in our team-oriented environment - it will bring us even more.
RESPONSIBILITIES
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with excellent training in biology, who will be responsible for applying bioinformatics expertise in the areas of data mining (sequence, expression, phenotype. etc), data integration, and bioinformatics tool development. Routine tasks include data assembly, sequence analysis, protein function prediction, homolog finding, tree building, and pathway analysis. The candidate will work closely with other bioinformatics functions and plant scientists to articulate biological questions, investigate various data types and tools available, develop data analysis strategy, make interpretations and derive hypothesis.
In this role the candidate will also deliver analysis results in user friendly and sensible ways, which may require writing scripts or macros to help scientists navigate and understand results. Additionally, the candidate will contribute to bioinformatics process optimization and standardization and work with the bioinformatics tool development team to define tool requirements.
REQUIREMENTS
The successful candidate will possess a MS/PhD in (Molecular Biology/Biochemistry/Biotechnology/Bioinformatics) with several years of bioinformatics experience is required. Excellent knowledge of the latest bioinformatics tools and databases for sequence, phylogeny, and structural analysis is required. Excellent communication and network skills, and the ability to interact with research scientists are essential to this role. PERL required, CGI, HTML, SQL is desirable.
HOW TO APPLY
Give your imagination a chance to soar - at Monsanto. Along with this great opportunity, you'll enjoy a competitive salary & excellent benefits. Apply online today at http://www.monsanto.com and select req. number mons-00008461. EOE M/F/D/V.
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