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Research Bioinformatician I -Surgery Chair
Location: Los Angeles, California
Overview
Cedars-Sinai is a hub for biomedical research and a training center for future physicians and other healthcare professionals. By joining us in an academic role, you’ll be a part of formulating future ideas for discovery and then translating those discoveries into cures for the benefit and health of the Los Angeles community.
- Full-Time & Per-Diem
- Level:
- Travel: Minimal (if any)
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- Analytical
- Organized
- Deadline-oriented
- Adaptable
- Results-driven
- Problem-solver
Research Bioinformatician I -Surgery Chair
Job Description
The Research Bioinformatician I 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.
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.
Summaries 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.
Qualifications
Educational Requirements:
- Minimum of a 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.
- Preferred: Master's of Science degree in Computer Science, Electric Engineering, Computational biology, or Bioinformatics, or Master of Science/ Engineering in relevant fields (e.g. Biology with strong quantitative training, biostatistics with concentration in bioinformatics).
Experience and Skillset:
- 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, Experiences in manipulating, analyzing, and annotating very large genomic (e.g. NGS) data sets, both in exploratory and pipelined fashions, will be a plus
Req ID : 12462
Working Title : Research Bioinformatician I -Surgery Chair
Department : Research - Surgery Chair
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 : $71,219 - $121,076
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Career Path
We offer many career paths to support your immediate and future success.
- Research Lab Assistant
- Research Associate I
- Research Associate II
- Research Associate III
- Research Associate IV
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