Principal Investigator, Ophir Klein, MD, PhD, is seeking a Research Bioinformatician I to join the team!
The Research Bioinformatician I (RBI) performs general bioinformatics analysis and software support for projects involving in omics. The RBI manages omic data including loading and querying data from database system(s) and public repositories, and transforms and merges multilevel omic data into user-friendly formats.
The RBI assists in development, testing, and maintenance of modular software pipelines, provides daily bioinformatics data analysis, preliminary interpretation of the data, and reports of the results for possible publications.
What are the primary duties and responsibilities?
- Provides general bioinformatics analysis support for omic projects and mainly responsible for data analysis and software compilations including next generation sequence alignment, polymorphism identification, expression analysis, and visualization tools and browsers.
- Summarizes data analyses results in the form suitable as the basis for the first draft of written reports, and makes preliminary interpretations of the data.
- Assists in development, testing, and maintenance of modular software pipelines for genome sequencing, assembly, annotation, metagenomic analysis, and genotyping using high-throughput sequencing platforms including 454, Illumina, and Pacific Biosciences.
- Manages data including loading and querying data from database systems, downloading omic data from public repositories, and transforming data to the necessary formats.
- Helps to identify, evaluate, and incorporate relevant algorithms and software pipelines by reviewing pertinent literatures in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Education & Experience Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Electric Engineering, Computational biology, or Bioinformatics, or relevant fields (e.g. Biology with strong quantitative training, biostatistics with concentration in bioinformatics) required. Master's Degree preferred.
- Three (3) years of experience in research environment preferred.
- Background and work knowledge in algorithms, scientific computing, and machine learning or statistics, Familiar with C/C++, Java, Perl, python, and the Unix (Linux) environment preferred.
- Experiences in manipulating, analyzing, and annotating very large genomic (e.g. NGS) data sets, both in exploratory and pipelined fashions, will be a plus.
- Experience with nucleic acids methods strongly desired.
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Cedars-Sinai is one of the largest nonprofit academic medical centers in the U.S., with 915 licensed beds, 2,993 physicians, 4,700+ nurses and thousands of other healthcare professionals and staff. Choose this if you want to work in a fast-paced environment that offers the highest level of care to people in the Los Angeles that need our care the most.
Req ID 19044
Working Title Research Bioinformatician I - Guerin Children's - Klein Lab - Full-Time
Department Research - Peds General
Business Entity Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Job Category Academic / Research
Job Specialty Bioinformatics
Overtime Status EXEMPT
Primary Shift Day
Shift Duration 8 hour
Base Pay $72,654.40 - $123,510.40
