Bioinformatics Analyst II

at  Baylor College of Medicine

SUMMARY

The Dan L Duncan Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) provides a learning environment at Baylor College of Medicine that integrates data from diverse domains including the electronic medical record, geospatial and social information and next generation technologies to support research, development, and implementation of new approaches to patient care. The ICTR Chao Cheng Laboratory and Bioinformatics Core is currently seeking a Bioinformatics Analyst II to provide bioinformatics analytics for diverse types of genomic data.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Genetics, Biology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• One years of relevant experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in a related field.
  Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

• Runs and validates genome variation pipeline.
• Reviews existing variation and propose improvements.
• Tests in-house misinformation tools and provides feedback to the software development team.
• Performs manual annotation on genome variation data.
• Interprets results from similarity searches and from mapping variation data on genomic coordinate systems.
• Ensures that annotation of variation objectives are met as required by project or supervisor.
• Uses various computational analyses and biological interpretation of results to review existing data and propose improvements.
• Prepares documented observations, analyses and interpretations of results including technical reports, summaries, protocols and quantitative analyses.
• Produces and analyzes reports; maintain communications with software engineers and programming stakeholders.
• Supervises, schedules and coordinates the activities of less experienced research staff.
• Performs other job related duties as assigned.