Computational Biology - Institute Research Investigator

Education

Required: Bachelor's degree in biology, biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, enzymology, pharmacology, chemistry or related field.

Preferred: Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Biostatistics or a related discipline from an accredited university

Experience

Required: Six years experience of relevant research experience in laboratory With Master's degree, four years of required experience. With a PhD in a natural science or Medical degree, no experience required.

Preferred Candidate will possess the following:

1.    Strong foundation in both computer science concepts and molecular / cancer biology.
2.    Evidence of proficiency in programing languages (Python, R), scripting languages (bash), high-performance computing, code version control, and computational notebook tools. 
3.    Experience with cloud computing, container images, reproducible workflows, and interactive visualization.
4.    Experience with machine-learning and/or data mining algorithms (ie. Clustering, classification, etc.), and experience utilizing common parametric and non-parametric statistical tests (ie. T-test, ANOVA, Wilcoxon- signed-rank test, Fisher’s exact test, etc.) for data analysis.
5.    Evidence of ability to develop statistical algorithms, or the comprehensive assessment of algorithms, for the analysis of large multidimensional datasets of successfully manipulating large volume datasets and experience with high performance computing are essential
6.    Knowledge and experience in areas of genomics, next-gen sequencing analytics (alignment tools, mutational variant callers, ChIP-seq, etc), pathway analysis, and network analysis.
7.    Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to effectively present results and conclusions to co-workers, collaborators and manager.
8.    Experience working with bench biologists, with examples where analytical methods enabled the validation of hypothesis.

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