Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist/Bioinformatic Research Scientist
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Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist/Bioinformatic Research Scientist
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The Center for Applied Bioinformatics (CAB) is looking for a highly motivated and creative individual to join our Genetics Group. As a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist/Bioinformatic Research Scientist (Statistical Genetics/Genetic Epidemiology), your responsibilities will include genotype-phenotype association, ancestry inference, QC and development/testing of analytic pipelines for familial and population genetics projects. We are seeking candidates with expertise in identifying causal or susceptibility factors (including genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors) that increase disease risk or modify disease progression, treatment responsiveness, and survivorship. We have ongoing sequencing projects in pediatric cancer and neurological diseases. There are opportunities to work on ongoing GWAS and sequencing projects as well develop new projects in areas such as statistical methods for genetic studies. We are particularly interested in individuals with experience in any of the following : working with large public genomic databases, statistical and bioinformatic fine-mapping approaches, pathway analysis, predictive modeling.
We are closely integrated with the Transcriptomics and Epigenetics Groups in the CAB, allowing for cross-training opportunities and collaboration. Additionally, we are supported by a Development and Operations team with computational expertise in transferring base developmental pipelines into streamline/high throughput pipelines. Our group works closely with investigators in St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center, the first and only NCI designated cancer center devoted to children (https://www.stjude.org/research/comprehensive-cancer-center.html), in order to discover and understand the genetics and biology of pediatric cancers. Our projects extend to nonmalignant hematological disorders such as the Sickle Genome Project (http://sickle-cell.stjude.cloud/) and related blood disorders (https://www.stjude.org/treatment/disease/other-blood-disorders.html) and neurological diseases. We have close collaboration with the Department of Biostatistics (https://www.stjude.org/research/departments-divisions/biostatistics.html) for expanding methodological approaches. Applicants should have training in statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology, or bioinformatics with in-depth understanding of computational genomics and disease modeling tools, including association and rare variant methods. Experience with data assimilation across WGS, RNAseq, and ChIPSeq datasets is desirable. Should be familial with public genomics datasets such as 1000G, gnomAD, TopMed, dbGAP, GTXe Portal. Substantial skills in computer programming, including R or Python, are required. Java web development skills is desirable. • Assist with preparation of project reports, presentations, and manuscript of analysis results, including detailed description of statistical genetic methods • Participate in the development of operations and procedures for the collection, editing, verification and management of data. • Run existing routine pipelines for germline SNV/Indel and CNV rare variant pathogenicity classification Senior Bioinformatic Research Scientist
Bioinformatic Research Scientist
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