Bioinformatician

Natasha Young is currently recruiting for a Bioinformatician to join a dedicated team of researchers providing an outsourced service to Eli Lilly, one of the top ten largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. This role is offered on a permanent basis and will be based at the client's site in Surrey, which is commutable from London, Oxford, Reading and Guilford.

The purpose of the role is to perform bioinformatics analysis and software support for genomics/systems biology projects, assisting in development, test and maintenance of modular software pipelines, providing daily data analysis, preliminary interpretation of the data, tests to determine biological significance, visualisation of biologically meaningful data and creating reports.

This role offers a salary of between 30,000 to 40,000 per annum depending upon experience.

Key Skills/Experience:

• Programming skills in R or Python including use of notebooks (R markdown/Jupyter)
• Experience in data mining, working with large datasets such as DNA- and RNA-sequencing, epigenomic, proteomic and protein-protein interaction data
• Experience in statistical analysis and handling of large data sets
• The ability to analyse and interpret bioinformatics data in the context of biological pathways and networks
• Ability to work in a Linux/HPC environment
• A Masters degree with a significant, demonstrable (by way of skills and/or research experience) element of Computational science, Bioinformatics, Molecular biology, Mathematics and/or Statistics.

For more information or to apply for this position, please contact Natasha Young onor email Alternatively, please click on the link below to apply online now. Please note that your CV should show exact dates of employment (month and year) and any gaps of a month or more should be explained.

CK Group is an Equal Opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all who meet our selection criteria.

If you do not hear back from us within 5 working days of your application for this role, it means that on this occasion you have not been shortlisted for the next stage of the recruitment campaign. Entitlement to work in the EEA is essential. Please quote reference IT42470 in all correspondence.

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