Research Bioinformatician I - Department of Cardiology - Cheng Lab Job at CEDARS-SINAI, Maywood, CA

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  • CEDARS-SINAI
  • Maywood, CA

Job Description

Job Description

When the work you do every single day has a crucial impact on the lives of others, every effort, every detail, and every second matters. This shared culture of happiness, passion, and dedication pulses through Cedars-Sinai, and it’s just one of the many reasons we rank as one of the top hospitals in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. From working with a team of committed healthcare professionals to using state-of-the-art facilities, you’ll have everything necessary do something incredible—for yourself and for others.

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

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.

Qualifications

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in an area related to bioinformatics, biostatistics, computational biology, or computer science, is required. MPH/MS/Ph.D. is preferred.

Work Experience:

Three years in a research environment. 

Preferred skills: 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. 

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 : 5959
Working Title : Research Bioinformatician I - Department of Cardiology - Cheng Lab
Department : Heart Institute
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

Job Tags

Work experience placement, Shift work,

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