Senior Bioinformatics Analyst - Drug Discovery & Networks

St Jude Children's Research Hospital; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 78,000 - 139,360; Full time

Job summary

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a bioinformatician to advance drug discovery for pediatric diseases.

You will work on systems biology, drug-gene interactions, and network analysis, contributing to proximity-based targeting strategies in a collaborative Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery. The role involves developing analyses, cloud-based visualization tools, and web services, with emphasis on integrative genomics and proteomics workflows for pediatric oncology,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics, cheminformatics, statistics/computer science (with a biology/chemistry background) or related field.
• Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze biomedical data with minimal supervision by performing advanced analysis, algorithm implementation, programming, and quality check.
• Assist senior analysts and scientists in the courses and training through in-house programs, user groups, seminars, documentation, and newsletters.
• Evaluate and integrate products, solutions, tools, and web-based applications.
• Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of databases or data warehouse.
• Develop prototypes for cloud portals and visualization tools; programs for data analysis within databases.
• Develop web services to query the database.
• Develop computational and systems biology approaches for network and driver analysis for transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to apply developed algorithms to diverse datasets.
• Perform integrative analyses of multidimensional datasets in proximity-based drug discovery contexts.
• Communicate with project managers on design and implementation of analytical processes, progress, and results.
• Perform other duties as assigned to meet department and institutional goals.
• Maintain regular and predictable attendance.

Skills

Programming language

Statistical package

R language

Education

Bachelor's degree in bioinformatics

Master's degree preferred

Job description

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is seeking a bioinformatician to advance drug discovery for pediatric diseases.

You will work on systems biology, drug-gene interactions, and network analysis, contributing to proximity-based targeting strategies in a collaborative Center of Excellence for Data Driven Discovery. The role involves developing analyses, cloud-based visualization tools, and web services, with emphasis on integrative genomics and proteomics workflows for pediatric oncology,