Bioinformatics NGS Data Analyst

Job Description

Job Summary:

• We are looking for a data scientist/curator who will help annotate proteomics data at the MLCS.
• The contractor will apply proteomics related knowledge with bioinformatics skills to help curate and register high dimensional proteomics data into internal data registry.
• The deliverable will facilitate data processing, analysis, machine learning with high reproducibility and scalability, as well as data management and visualization.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Annotate internal mass spec proteomics datasets to be compliant.
• Register the datasets into internal database.
• Transform and engineer datasets so they are ready for downstream analysis.
• Extract, transform and load high value external datasets.
• Document workflows and ensure data injection, metadata capture, versioning control and curation.
• The deliverable will facilitate data processing, analysis, machine learning with high reproducibility and scalability, as well as data management and visualization.

Organizational Relationship:

• Mostly with hiring manager.
• Communication with wet lab scientists who are the data generators.

Education and Experience:

• B.S or advanced degree in Bioinformatics, Biology, Molecular Cell Biology, Biochemistry, Analytical Chemistry or related fields.

Technical Requirements:

• Familiarity with mass spectrometry based proteomics data type is strongly prefered.
• Wet-lab experience in Biology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Analytical Chemistry or related field is strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of relational or graph database is prefered.
• Experience in scripting languages like R/Python is desirable.
• Familiarity with workflow languages (Nextflow, CWL, etc) is desirable.
• Familiarity with Client scripting, cluster or cloud computing infrastructure (AWS, GCP) is desirable.