Description
Apply bioinformatics methods to support scientists in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical informatics. Use computational tools to visualize, analyze, and interpret molecular and genomic data, and build and maintain databases and pipelines for biological information.
- • Analyze and manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical tools, and data mining techniques.
- • Coordinate with researchers, clinicians, and IT to define data needs and programming requirements, and support database-driven studies.
- • Create data management and error-checking procedures and draft user documentation.
- • Design and implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.
- • Implement and apply data mining and machine learning workflows to biological datasets.
- • Document database changes, modifications, and issues.
- • Extend and optimize existing software, web tools, and queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
- • Stay current with emerging computational methods, standards, and technologies.
- • Contribute to reports, presentations, and scientific publications.
- • Test new or updated software and tools and provide feedback to developers.
- • Train researchers and staff in the use of databases and analysis tools.
- • Write programs and scripts to query databases and automate routine tasks.
- • Perform quality control on data inputs, pipelines, and analytical results.
- • Communicate with database users about project timelines, deliverables, and changes.
- • Package and submit bioinformatics data to public repositories in compliance with submission standards.
- • Perform routine system administration tasks, including troubleshooting, backups, and upgrades.
- • Develop and maintain applications that load biological data into searchable databases for analysis and reporting.
- • Enter, curate, and retrieve data from structural, sequence motif, mutation, genomic, and gene expression databases.
- • Monitor database performance and perform maintenance, upgrades, and repairs.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
