Duties: Evaluates, analyzes, and customizes next generation sequence analysis protocols, e.g. HiSeq Analysis Software, Genome Analysis Toolkit (GATK), open source software, for a variety of sequencing applications; Develops new WGS, RNA-seq, Exome seq, genome analysis pipelines and procedures; Performs genome wide trait association analyses using tools such as Plink/seq, generalized linear model (glm); Conducts data‐driven and hypothesis-directed genomics research; Assists with the report of experimental results for publication in technical and peer-reviewed journals. Contributes and edits data, text and figures in program publications; May supervise junior informatics staff; May perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned or directed by the supervisor. This may include attendance of and participation in required training for role
Requirements: Master's Degree required, Doctoral degree preferred within Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computer Science or related discipline; Minimum of 0-2 years experience required; Research training and proficiency in statistical analysis biomedical research, and quantitative analysis. Programming ability in (R or other statistical language); Scripting language (Perl, Python, or comparable), and (C/C++, Java or comparable language)