RESPONSIBILITIES

• Undertaking research projects in collaboration with academic supervisors, making innovative and significant contributions pertaining to computational genome annotation and various applied bioinformatics in a molecular biology research laboratory
• Undertaking comprehensive analysis of transport proteins
• Performing computational comparative studies of sequenced genomes
• Extracting and integrating biological information and data
• Performing protein and nucleotide sequence analysis
• Determining the phylogenetic analyses of sequences to establish family/super family relationships within transport classification system using tools such as BLAST, MSA, GCG and EMBOSS packages, etc.
• Preparing reports and manuscripts on the results
• Extensive scientific programming and database development and maintenance
• Redesigning, implementing and administering the Transport Classification Database (TCDB) in collaboration with computer scientists and academic advisors
• Instructing and assisting undergraduate students with projects including troubleshooting and problem solving in computational work

REQUIREMENTS

• Willingness and ability to work evenings and weekends as needed to support the needs of research
• Must be willing to work in the presence of chemicals and other hazardous materials.
• Demonstrate strong theoretical knowledge and independent experimental ability to perform applied bioinformatics in a molecular biology research laboratory or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrate detailed conceptual/theoretical including independent experimental ability experience in genome annotation and computational biology related projects
• Demonstrated writing ability in preparing and editing papers, manuscripts, grants and lab data. Demonstrated ability to maintain effective record keeping
• Proven ability to independently participate in the execution of research projects to develop scientific programs using Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, MySQL in UNIX environment, XPATH, SAX, DOM, HTML
• Experience with the design, development and maintenance of databases used for biological data storage and analysis in a molecular biology research environment, such as a Transport Classification Database
• Theoretical knowledge and ability to perform phylogenetic analyses of sequences using MSA (ClustalX/W, T-coffee, KALIGN) along with BEAST, Paup, GCG and EMBOSS package, HMMER2 and other software such as, IC (Inter-Compare), AveHAS, SuperTree, etc.
• Experience with protein and nucleotide sequence analysis, including motif/domain, using programs such as MEME/MAST, HMMER, Pfam, SMART, CDD and DCART search
• Proficiency with computer hardware and software including different operating system environments (such as Mac, Windows and UNIX) with the willingness and ability to update skills and knowledge as needed.

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