Description
Curate, annotate, and maintain scientific databases supporting bioinformatics, biotechnology, and medical research. Design schemas, metadata standards, and ingest/validation pipelines to integrate, quality-check, and link genomic and other biological information; collaborate with researchers and software engineers to ensure accuracy, usability, and compliant access.
- • Recommend new data models, ontologies, and curation workflows to improve database operations.
- • Stay current with data standards, ontologies, instrumentation, and curation software.
- • Coordinate with research, product, and operations teams to prioritize database features and content.
- • Collaborate with software developers to implement and modify curation tools and APIs.
- • Test and validate new and updated database features, pipelines, and tools.
- • Provide controlled vocabularies, metadata templates, and guidance for data submission and annotation.
- • Generate summary statistics, release notes, and data dictionaries for database content.
- • Train users and staff in data submission, querying, and curation best practices.
- • Improve user interfaces and search capabilities for databases and portals.
- • Lead or coordinate the work of curators, technicians, and data managers.
- • Develop ETL scripts and pipelines to ingest, normalize, and de-duplicate datasets.
- • Design and maintain database schemas and indexes for performance and integrity.
- • Create or modify web-based data access and curation tools.
- • Develop and apply data validation, parsing, and record-linkage algorithms.
- • Create novel approaches for data harmonization, provenance tracking, and integration.
- • Aggregate, annotate, and harmonize datasets (genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, clinical) for inclusion.
- • Document and communicate database updates through reports, documentation, and publications.
- • Ingest, cross-reference, and reconcile public, commercial, and proprietary datasets.
- • Consult with researchers to define metadata standards, access policies, and computational strategies.
- • Perform quality control audits and integrity checks on large molecular and clinical datasets.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
