Job description
BV-BRC Bioinformatics Analyst
JCVI – La Jolla, CA
Job Responsibilities: The Bioinformatics Analyst will work as a member of a bioinformatics research team on the development and enhancement of the NIAID-funded BV-BRC website through algorithm, infrastructure and workflow development to mine, analyze, and visualize virology research and surveillance data. The Bioinformatics Analyst will contribute to the development and enhancement of the BV-BRC website by participating in the following activities:
- Developing novel analytical algorithms and software tools for comparative genomics analysis, transcriptomics and proteomics enrichment analysis, and biological pathway and network systems analysis
- Performing complex data mining analysis related to comparative genomics and phylogenetic evolution in collaboration with user groups
- Performing host-pathogen systems analysis
- Developing database, analytical, and machine learning workflows to identify significant sequence variations
- Designing conceptual database models and other bioinformatics resource features
- Conveying user requirements and design concepts to a team of software engineers in order to facilitate system development activities
- Developing data standards and controlled vocabularies/ontologies for various system components
- Identifying and capturing public sources of relevant data
- Manual curation of information from the scientific literature
- Interfacing with the user in response to Helpdesk request
- Participating in outreach training activities regarding the use of the BV-BRC resource for infectious disease research
- Preparing scientific. Manuscripts for peer-reviewed publications
- Delivering oral and poster presentations at scientific conferences
Requirements
Qualifications: Successful candidates should have a Master’s of Science or Ph.D. degree in the life sciences, public heath, computer science or related disciplines with strong familiarity with bioinformatics, computational biology, genomic analysis and general life sciences research. The candidate must have a strong working knowledge of bioinformatics related to genomics, transcriptomics and/or proteomics data, and of public database resources such as NCBI Entrez/GenBank, EBI ArrayExpress, PDB, IEDB, etc. The candidate should also have experience working with genomics analysis tools such as RAXML, BEAST, MEGA, MAFFT, and Nextstrain. Laboratory research experience in virology, immunology or related disciplines, especially related to NIH-defined Category A – C viral pathogens (http://www.niaid.nih.gov/topics/biodefenserelated/biodefense/pages/cata.aspx) is preferred. The Bioinformatics Analyst will interact with the scientific user community through various outreach activities and scientific conference in order to train investigators in the use of the BV-BRC website and to capture system requirements; therefore strong interpersonal and communication skills are required.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to, stand, sit; talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard reach, stoop kneel to install computer equipment
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work
- Light to moderate lifting is required
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.
J. Craig Venter Institute is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
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