Research Scientist - Bioinformatics III Job at LS Solutions, San Mateo, CA

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  • LS Solutions
  • San Mateo, CA

Job Description

Description:
Specific Responsibilities and skills for Position: We are seeking a highly talented and motivated Bioinformatics Scientist to support drug discovery and development efforts in virology cure programs. The candidate will work in a highly productive team environment in collaboration with other Research functions to create data analysis tools for investigation of viral and immunological drug targets. The individual will collaborate with Biologists and other Bioinformatics Scientists on projects to explore viral sequencing, viral evolution and diversity, host immune datasets, and responses to biologics and vaccines.

Required Knowledge, Experience and Skills:
Thorough understanding and interest in biology with the demonstrated ability to contribute to scientific efforts focused on understanding diseases
Excellent background in next-generation sequencing data analysis
Strong programming and scripting abilities in languages such as Python, R, C++, C#, Java
Experience with open-source bioinformatics tools / packages (GATK, Bioconductor, etc)
Strong organizational and communication skills

Desired Knowledge, Experience, and Skills:
Knowledge of virology and immuno-informatics tools and datasets
Experience in database design and writing queries for SQL and document databases
Experience evaluating genetic variation in populations using phylogenetics

Specific Education and Experience:
A PhD or 7+ years of experience with MS degree in bioinformatics, computer science, computational biology, genomics, or a related field.
Employment Type: Contractor

Job Tags

Contract work, For contractors,

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