Bioinformatics Scientist II: Genomics & Cancer Research

Hugh Chatham Health, Inc.; Winston-Salem (NC); On-site; USD 49,000 - 73,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid Time Off

Retirement plans

Job summary

Advocate Health is seeking a bioinformatics specialist to support faculty and staff in biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Comprehensive Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, NC. You will collaborate on genomics, proteomics, imaging, and other data-intensive studies, developing analysis pipelines and visualization tools.

The role requires a Master's in a relevant field or a Bachelor's with statistics experience, plus strong programming skills in Java, Perl, Python, and R.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in bioinformatics, mathematics, biomathematics, computer science, engineering, or related scientific discipline.
• Bachelor's degree with three years' statistics experience.
• Experience in software development and database development.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with resources and tools in genomics, proteomics, imaging, bioinformatics, and related disciplines.
• Understanding of modern biology and bioinformatics fundamentals.
• Experience in computer programming (Java, Perl, Python, R) and database programming.
• Knowledge of cancer biology, statistics, and statistical analysis.
• Experience with bioinformatic tools and public databases.

Responsibilities

• Provide bioinformatics support for faculty and staff in biostatistics and bioinformatics.
• Collaborate with cancer center investigators and assist in developing genomics, proteomics, imaging, and other related quantitatively oriented studies that promote advanced scientific research through innovative data handling, data analysis, and data processing pipeline and visualization methods.
• Design and develop bioinformatics analysis and visualization software tools and web applications.
• Demonstrate basic knowledge in data visualization software, web application development for data intensive problems, web services development and deployment, performance tuning or high-performance applications, or bioinformatics software development.
• Develop and apply computational algorithms to biomedical studies using genomic, proteomic, expression, imaging and other related data.
• Perform timely and accurate bioinformatics analysis to aid researchers in high throughput data analysis. Maintain, support, and document shared tools, web pages, and data sets for computational analysis. Assist in the development and maintenance of relational database for storing data and analysis results.
• Assist in advance analyses under the supervision of faculty and senior biostatisticians and bioinformaticians.
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.

Skills

Communication skills

Bioinformatics familiarity

Biology knowledge

Statistics knowledge

Programming (Java/Perl/Python/R)

Public databases tools

Education

Master's degree in bioinformatics or related field

Bachelor's degree + 3 years statistics experience

Tools

Java

Perl

Python

R

Relational databases

Job description

Advocate Health is seeking a bioinformatics specialist to support faculty and staff in biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Comprehensive Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, NC. You will collaborate on genomics, proteomics, imaging, and other data-intensive studies, developing analysis pipelines and visualization tools.

The role requires a Master's in a relevant field or a Bachelor's with statistics experience, plus strong programming skills in Java, Perl, Python, and R.