Bioinformatician

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The Bioinformatician will support the Cook Childrens precision health and precision medicine research ecosystem by developing and maintaining analytical pipelines for genomic data performing variant annotation and interpretation building tools for clinical decision support and advancing data integration across genomics clinical phenotypes and functional datasets. This role supports precision clinics genome-informed care research and AI-enabled clinical workflows. This position will collaborate closely with Cook Childrens variant scientists genetic counselors clinicians data scientists and computational teams.

Education:

• Masters degree in Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genetics Data Science Computer Science or related field

Experience:

• 2 years experience in genomic data processing variant annotation or large-scale data analysis

• Demonstrated proficiency in R and/or Python SQL Linux/Unix environments and common bioinformatics workflows

About Us:

Cook Childrens Health Care System

Cook Childrens Health Care System offers a unique approach to caring for children because we are one of the countrys leading integrated pediatric health care delivery organizations. Patients benefit from the integrated system because it allows Cook Childrens to use all of its resources to treat a patient and allows for easy communication between the various companies by physicians with a focus on caring for children and adolescents.

Cook Childrens is an equal opportunity employer. As such Cook Childrens offers equal employment opportunities without regard to race color religion sex age national origin physical or mental disability pregnancy protected veteran status genetic information or any other protected class in accordance with applicable federal laws. These opportunities include terms conditions and privileges of employment including but not limited to hiring job placement training compensation discipline advancement and termination.