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Posted: 05-Oct-23
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Salary: Open
Internal Number: 52462
Position Number: 001871
Department: Coll of Computing&Informatics (Col)
Employment Type: Permanent - Full-time
Months Per Year: 12
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The main responsibility will be to perform Bioinformatics Programmer/Analyst duties and to manage and populate Web-accessible data repositories that provide data for display in Integrated Genome Browser (IGB), a visualization software program. In addition, this role will help new users learn to how to explore, sanity-check, and analyze genomic data using IGB and related tools.
Duties Include:
- Harvest, process, and deploy data for visualization in Integrated Genome Browser using bioinformatics software such as R/Bioconductor and Nextflow pipelines.
- Explore, learn, evaluate, and train others on using diverse visualization software applications for bioinformatics.
- Assist in designing and testing new features for Integrated Genome Browser and/or IGB Apps (apps.bioviz.org).
- Investigate using AWS or other cloud platform resources to deploy data processing and data deployment pipelines.
Minimum Experience / Education:
- MS degree or higher in CS, Biology, or Bioinformatics
- Graduate-level training in biology or genomics.
Preferred Education Skills and Experience:
- Knowledge of Unix file systems, Unix operating systems, and shell scripting.
- Ability to log into remote hosts using ssh and navigate the system.
- Ability to run and trouble-shoot bioinformatics data processing workflow software.
- Ability to write, debug, and explain code written in python and R languages.
- Knowledge of version control systems and how to use them,
- Knowledge of bioinformatics data types including gene models and sequence alignments.
- Familiarity with BED, fa, 2bit, GFF, and other file formats in bioinformatics and ability to understand and use new ones as needed.
- Understanding of how websites serve content.
- Good attention to detail; ability to manage multiple projects using team-oriented project management software.
- Good oral and written communication skills; ability to write clearly and succinctly and edit one's own work.
