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  • [Photo] Corky Harris • January 24, 2011

    BACKGROUND

    SRA International, a leading provider of bioinformatics services to the Federal Government, is seeking a Bioinformatics professional to join our group that supports The Cancer Genome Atlas's Data Coordinating Center. http://tcga-data.nci.nih.gov/tcga/

    RESPONSIBILITIES

    Provide Data Quality Analysis for The Cancer Genome Atlas Data Coordinating Center(DCC). We anticipate that the DCC shall play a significant role in establishing quality checks, enforcing quality controls, and integrating information systems between the QMS, the DCC, and the BCRs. Staff shall fully support the data quality assurance and QMS activities from the perspective of the DCC.

    The DCC must also complete a thorough data quality review and sanity check.
    • Review of all XML meta-data files and data description files for completeness and sanity of data values
    The sanity review is primarily to ensure the type of values represented within the files is valid. Cursory review of a small number of XML meta-data files demonstrated nonsensical data passing data validation.

    In later stages of the project, will also assist in software testing and validation, especially where relevant to data ETL and manipulations.
    • Accounting for all data (identifying gaps and providing an accounting for missing information)

    REQUIREMENTS

    • Years of experience (min): 6-9
    • Required Degree: Bachelors, Masters preferred in bioinformatics, molecular biology, or CS
    • Experience with data QA/QC for molecular biology data, either in relational databases of flat files, formatted in XML
    • Requires some basic knowledge of modern biological concepts in molecular biology and genetics or in formal QA/QC procedures and standards.
    • Superb attention to detail and excellent communication skills a must.
    • Knowledge of relational databases and SQL (Oracle preferred) as well as XML; for this position, significant knowledge of a scripting language (Perl, Python, etc.) required to create scripts to identify data that needs to be cleaned, as well as to perform the cleaning in both Oracle DBs and in flat files.

    TERMS

    Open now, full-time position

    LOCALE

    Rockville, MD, USA

    HOW TO APPLY

    You MUST go to http://www.sra.com/careers/search.php and enter 31202BR in the Requisition Number box. Also email Corky_Harris[at]sra.com

    DEADLINE

    ASAP

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