Associate Bioinformatician
Associate Bioinformatician
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As a notforprofit organization Partners HealthCare is committed to supporting patient care research teaching and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Womens Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Partners HealthCare supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals a managed care organization a physician network community health centers home care and other healthrelated entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.
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General Overview:
Partners HealthCare Personalized Medicine (PPM) is a leader and innovator in helping realize the promise of personalized medicine by accelerating the integration of genetic knowledge into clinical care. PPM is tasked with translating the latest genetic discoveries into routinely orderable genetic tests that are used to improve clinical decision making for patients around the world.
The Associate Bioinformatician I will have the opportunity to assist in the development and maintenance of bioinformatics capabilities which support the activities of the Laboratory for Molecular Medicine (a CLIAcertified molecular diagnostic laboratory) PPMs Translational Genomics Core and the Partners BioBank. A focus will be the support of nextgeneration sequencing pipelines in the research translational and clinical settings. Assigned tasks will depend on the centers priorities and may encompass responsibilities beyond those described here.
The successful candidate should have a strong scientific background with prior exposure to genetics and/or genomics excellent communication and problemsolving skills and the ability to interact with multidisciplinary staff in a fastpaced environment.
Responsibilities:
1.Assist in building different modules of software pipelines for nextgeneration sequencing applications and array technologies
2.Provide informatics support in development of clinical diagnostic tests
3.Assist in mining/annotation of clinical data. A strong understanding of the principles of genetics is a preferred plus.
4.Assist with current clinical operation pipelines and research operation pipelines
5.Assist with data quality assessment and troubleshooting
6.Assist in the analysis acquisition and loading of new data sources
7.Work collaboratively with the group.
8.Create testing validation and standard operation procedure documentation
Basic knowledge of algorithms data structures and scientific programming.
Experience in a Unix/Linux environment including proficiency in shell scripting and scripting in a language such as Perl or Python.
Some experience with R statistical package or MatLab.
Familiarity with common NGS tools (BWA/GATK/Picard Tools etc).
Familiarity using common bioinformatics databases (UCSC NCBI etc).
Ability to work on multiple projects. This is a dynamic environment where priorities often change.
Strong interest in molecular biology and genetics and a willingness to learn concepts and terminology from these fields as needed.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
