Bioinformatics Jobs in USA

Position Requirements

Overall Position Summary and Objectives	Min Education	Resume Max Pages
Independently provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The primary objective is to provide services and deliverables through performance of support services.	Master's	3

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Additional Qualifications

Certifications & Licenses - N/A	Field of Study - Neuroscience
Software - Python - R - MATLAB	Skills - Reinforcement Learning - Cognitive Modeling - Bayesian Statistics Machine Learning - Generalized Linear Regression

Work Location

IC: NIMH		Street: 35 Convent Drive		Bldg: 35			Room: 3A-102
City: Bethesda				State & Zip: MD 20892
Work Hours
Weekly Hours	FT: 30-40 hours per week		# Of Hours				40

Statement of Work Details

Provides programming and troubleshooting support to the Federal Government in the dissemination of research data.

• Generate and optimize programs and scripts for the analysis of data; create programs and algorithms and develop computational infrastructure resources for organizing and parsing data from large and complex data.
• Provide broad-based programming and analytic support for a wide variety of bioinformatic and research projects.
• Install, troubleshoot and run open-source and commercial scientific software on platforms

Performs computations on research data analysis.

• Perform computational analysis of, and interpret results.
• Provide reports based on analysis of scientific data.
• Provide interpretive analyses of data derived from different experimental platforms to generate biological meaning.
• Write custom programs and algorithms to support data analyses and discovery.

Works with staff on scientific programming and experimental design.

• Collaborate with scientists to design, analyze, manage and interpret all types of data.- Design and execute computational experiments.
• Work with staff on planning of experiments, and data analysis for internal and collaborative projects; use bioinformatics expertise to advise and help bench scientists on experimental design and trouble-shooting.
• Make recommendations to investigators about the correct computational tools for testing scientific hypotheses and reaching valid conclusions.

Records observations and report results at weekly laboratory meetings.

• Maintain proper and detailed documentation of the analysis performed and report results at lab meetings.
• Attend scientific and programming meetings; take and compile comprehensive notes; organize and edit content of meeting reports.- Prepare scientific reports and progress reports; assemble data to prepare tables, graphs and slides; conduct scientific and program related information searches and report results.

Provides statistical support / analysis on research data.

• Devise novel methods of statistical analysis for collected data.
• Perform data processing and data analysis with existing computational and statistical methods.
• Assist in evaluating and interpreting results for validity and scientific meaning.

Provides research / service goals in the context of the laboratory's overall mission.

• Create novel programs and algorithms that facilitate discovery of knowledge in investigating large and complex data. 1
• Participate in the design of new protocols involving computational methods.
• Work with staff on the development and maintenance of bioinformatics tools, scripts and pipe-lines for data.
• Participate in research design with investigators for determining best practices pertaining to the bioinformatics analysis in new and ongoing projects.

Evaluates new types of experimental approaches to protocols based on knowledge of scientific literature, available facilities and research needs.

• Research and review literature to retrieve targeted clinical or scientific information, including novel statistical methods, from publicly available resources. 5
• Collaborate with staff to review current and historical procedures for the acquisition, quality control and management of data.
• Analyze and evaluate data cleaning and harmonization needs in the using a variety of descriptive statistics and analytic methods.
• Identify new tools and resources for reaching biologically meaningful conclusions.
• Collaborate with experimentalists and computational biologists to develop new computational tools to answer research questions of interest.

Independently coordinates the training of personnel in the use of scientific software applications, statistical software applications and programmatic software applications.

• Provide training in and technical support (including product updates and version control) for programs, algorithms, archives, and pipelines generated during the course of this work.
• Instruct staff in computational analysis of data.
• Provide ad hoc trainings and hands-on workshops on the use of bioinformatics tools.
• Provide training of students, new investigators, and other laboratory personnel in the use of techniques, procedures and equipment to complete the objectives of the laboratory.

Initiates interdisciplinary collaborations with other research centres.

• Work with an interdisciplinary team to apply computational data analysis approaches to make biological discoveries. 2
• Collaborate with group members in experiments associated with data collection.
• Interact with all levels of staff and communicate with outside collaborators in the US and abroad.
• Collaborate with biologists, statisticians and/or other bioinformaticians in the design of models summarizing/explaining experimental data.

Deliver at least one presentation per year to audiences outside the Government.

• Attend group meetings; present findings; author publications resulting from projects. 3
• Present analysis results at research conferences and meetings. 4
• Present new research data in group settings, at meetings or seminars.
• Present scientific and technical data at scientific conferences.