BACKGROUND

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide general bioinformatics support to researchers and development of tools to visualize and explore complex and extensive bioinformatics data
• Analysis of next generation high-throughput sequencing data (Illumina, IonTorrent, DNA, RNA, ChIP)
• Development of customized analysis pipelines, including read mapping, alignment to reference genomes, Gene Onthology and pathway analysis
• Analysis of array-based genotyping and expression profiling data
• Design and implementation of new analytical algorithms and methods, with opportunity to contribute to open source efforts and scientific publications
• Integration of diverse and heterogeneous data to facilitate data mining, statistical analysis, and interactive visualization

REQUIREMENTS

• PhD in bioinformatics, genomics, computer science, biological sciences or related area required

• A minimum of 3 years experience in bioinformatics software development and research
• Extensive experience in analyzing sequence data from both traditional and next-generation technologies. Practical experience of high throughput data analysis, data management and data integration
• Experience with analysis and handling of large genomic datasets
• Experience in statistics and data mining
• Strong proficiency in standard bioinformatics and analysis tools and packages, including Perl, Python, Bioconductor as well as knowledge of C/C++, C# or Java required. Experience in Unix or Linux operating systems
• Extensive experience with bioinformatics tools such as BLAST, Bioconductor, UCSC genomic browser, IGV and alignment tools such as BOWTIE, BWA, NOVOALIGN
• Experience with molecular biology, genomics and detailed understanding of publicly available genomic databases(e.g., NCBI, ENSEMBL,PUBMED)
• Experience with design of bioinformatics algorithms and database structures
• Experience with Biostatistics (Bioconductor)

PREFERENCES

• Experience in gene expression analysis, statistics, protein structure and modeling packages is preferred.

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HOW TO APPLY

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