Bioinformatics Analyst III (Remote)

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Bioinformatics Analyst III (Remote)

Contract: North Chicago , Illinois, US

Salary: $50.00 Per Hour

Job Code: 344791

End Date: 2024-04-18
Days Left: 10 days, 3 hours left

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To discuss more about this job opportunity, please reach out to Chitrank Rastogi (LinkedIn URL - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chitrank-rastogi-55119a102/), email your updated resume at Email - [email protected] or give me a call at (425) 523-1648. Thank you!

Job Description:
Job Roles & Responsibilities:
Required Skill 1: NGS analysis (RNAseq, WES, etc.)
Required Skill 2: python and R
Required Skill 3: oncology background, especially in cancer biology, tumor dependencies, signaling pathways
Required Skill 4: data visualization, technical problem solving
Required Skill 5: good communication skills

What years of experience, education, and/or certification is required?
PhD. Degree in bioinformatics, computational biology, statistics, mathematics, computer science, genomics, cancer biology, immunology, or a related field.
Master's degree with typically 3-5 years of experience.
Bachelor's degree with typically 6-8 years of experience.

What is a nice to have (but not required) regarding skills, requirements, experience, education, or certification?
Experience with HPC clusters, cloud compute, docker containers/apptainers or similar
Version control, github, shell
Variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA
CRISPR screens analysis, single cell platforms, proteomics, metabolomics, microarray, etc.
Predictive modeling, machine learning, statistics

What is the environment that this person will be working in (i.e. group setting vs individual role)?
Both

Other notable details about the environment from the hiring manager about this role.
Half of role is involved in support for oncology discovery teams to perform varied analyses pertaining to target ID and validation, MOA hypothesis generation, biomarker discovery, etc.
Other half is pertaining to innovative research and methodology development for DNA NGS.

What positions/background experience do you feel are successful in this role?
Prior research work in oncology bioinformatics analysis, either in academia or industry

Commonly Asked Screening Questions:

Project scope- what will this person(s) be supporting?
Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs; DNA NGS research and method development

Project Goal & Project Budget?
Goal 1: Drug target identification/evaluation for oncology discovery programs
QC, process, and interpret omics data sets for various discovery programs
Meet w/ program teams throughout experimental stages, from design to results
Goal 2: DNA NGS research and method development
Work with bioinformatic methods development team to research and develop new methods for variant calling and somatic copy number estimation from DNA

Education Background?
A Ph.D. OR a Masters degree with at least three years of relevant experience OR a bachelor's degree with six years of experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, computer science, engineering, or cancer biology is required

Therapeutic area discipline?
Oncology
Synthetic lethality, tumor intrinsic pathways, cancer genetics, etc.
Cross functional teams to be interacting with?
Discovery, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Bioinformatic Engineering, IR
Coding requirements
R and/or python required
Docker/Apptainer experience a plus
Familiarity with AI/ML techniques a plus

Datasets experience?
In vivo/in vitro cellular biology datasets; cancer patient populations
CRISPR screens analysis preferred
Extraction, interpretation, analysis & communication? Yes
Genomics data? Yes
Experience processing omics (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, genotypes, etc) or other high-dimensional data? Yes

Job Requirement
Bioinformatics Analyst
Bioinformatics
CRISPR
in vitro cellular biology
omics
genomics
transcriptomics
proteomics
genotypes
DNA
NGS
CRISPR
HPC clusters
cancer biology
immunology
Biotechnology
Pharma
Pharmaceuticals
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Chitrank Rastogi
[email protected]
4255231648

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