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Bioinformatics Engineer - Pediatric Oncology/Janeway Lab

Organisation Name: Dana-Ferber
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Country: United States

Job Description:

Job ID:
37507

Location:
450 Brookline Ave Boston MA 02215

Category:
IT/Informatics

Employment Type:
Full time

Work Location:
Hybrid: 2-3 days onsite/week

Overview

Responsible for a wide range of technical tasks involving the creation and use of software for the display and manipulation of biological data. Provides assistance to faculty and research staff in the collection management analysis and interpretation of biological data with a focus on the analysis of data from genomic transcriptomic proteomic or microarray studies.

Located in Boston and the surrounding communities Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a leader in life changing breakthroughs in cancer research and patient care. We are united in our mission of conquering cancer HIV/AIDS and related diseases. We strive to create an inclusive diverse and equitable environment where we provide compassionate and comprehensive care to patients of all backgrounds and design programs to promote public health particularly among high-risk and underserved populations. We conduct groundbreaking research that advances treatment we educate tomorrow's physician/researchers and we work with amazing partners including other Harvard Medical School-affiliated hospitals.

Responsibilities

  • Designs and develops software databases and interfaces for analyzing and manipulating biological data.
  • Draws upon knowledge of biology to improve data mining and management techniques.
  • Collaborates with laboratory researchers to develop high throughput data processing and analysis capability.
  • Adds new software that has been internally developed or imported from outside sources to in-house systems.
  • Directs and guides DNA RNA and protein sequence database searches and the computational analysis of resulting data.
  • Provides direct technical and scientific customer support and helps guide implement and maintain further improvements to bioinformatics software.
  • Works with the entire life science team to diagnose and fix issues with software.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree required MS preferred or PhD in bioinformatics computer science and/or the life sciences and 3-5 years relevant experience.
  • Familiarity with simple programming using Perl/Python or Java statistical programming using R or related tools web-development and database query through SQL.
  • Familiarity with principles of experimental design and modern data analysis paradigms is required.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively interact with all levels of staff and external contacts.
  • Excellent analytical organizational and time management skills.

At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute we work every day to create an innovative caring and inclusive environment where every patient family and staff member feels they belong. As relentless as we are in our mission to reduce the burden of cancer for all we are equally committed to diversifying our faculty and staff. Cancer knows no boundaries and when it comes to hiring the most dedicated and diverse professionals neither do we. If working in this kind of organization inspires you we encourage you to apply.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is an equal opportunity employer and affirms the right of every qualified applicant to receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex gender identity or expression national origin sexual orientation genetic information disability age ancestry military service protected veteran status or other groups as protected by law.

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Posting Date: Jan 08, 2024
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Organisation Website/Careers Page: https://careers.dana-farber.org/job/bioinformatics-engineer-pediatric-oncology-janeway-lab-it-informatics-boston-ma-37507/


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