Bioinformatics Analyst
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a global leader in pediatric research and care, seeking a Bioinformatics Analyst who is passionate about solving complex biological problems. The role focuses on analyzing and visualizing large-scale multiomics datasets while contributing biological insights to data interpretation and developing web-based tools for data sharing.
Responsibilities
- Curates, annotates and organizes various types of biomedical data (e.g., genomic, clinical, imaging, sequencing) in various formats (e.g., flat files, relational and non-relational databases)
- Collects and records appropriate metadata
- Ensures data are securely stored yet highly accessible to authorized users
- Executes pipelines for curating, processing and analyzing biomedical data of various types (e.g., genomic, clinical, imaging, sequencing)
- Utilizes existing software to support complex data management tasks (e.g., sequence alignment, variant calling, inter-sample comparison, patient matching/linkage)
- Utilizes web-based bioinformatics tools and public/proprietary relational databases
- Follows standard operating procedures
- Works in collaboration with both technology and scientific teams
- Interfaces with clinicians/researchers to collect requirements of basic to moderate complexity including user workflows
- Contributes to problem-solving and solution evaluation
- Contributes to the evaluation and development of software solutions to support basic to moderately complex data workflows
- Under general supervision, assists with implementation and testing efforts
- Effectively communicates the status of all efforts to necessary parties
- Utilizes project and time management skills to complete projects within specific timeframes
- Contributes to analyses and publications
- Generates reports and figures for publications
- Assists with materials for publications and scientific meetings
- Works closely with biostaticians on the production of publication and presentation materials
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- 0+ years of work experience in a related job discipline
- Master's or PhD in Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Statistics, Biology, or a related field
- Proficiency in R or Python, GitHub, and Microsoft Office
- Experience with analytic frameworks such as Seurat or Scanpy
- Strong knowledge of web technologies including HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and R Shiny
- Experience in database design and web application development
- Background in functional genomics and basic statistics
- Understanding of biological systems or disease mechanisms
- Strong problem-solving abilities
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
- Demonstrated time management and presentation capabilities
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