Junior Bioinformatician

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Job Summary:

ATCC is a non-profit organization focused on supporting critical life science research, and they are seeking a remote Bioinformatician to join their expanding Sequencing and Bioinformatics Center. The Bioinformatician will utilize bioinformatics tools to process and analyze biological data, support internal teams and external clients, and contribute to the ATCC Genome Portal.

Responsibilities:

• Run and assist in writing and custom bioinformatics scripts using existing published tools and occasionally tools developed for purpose, summarize the results in a digestible manner and deliver the information using established reporting procedures.

• Leverage current ML/AI data science techniques to enhance analysis and expand team expertise having a familiarity with ML libraries (e.g. Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, PyTorch, Biopython) as well as biological models (e.g. DNA/ProteinBERT).

• Support staff with writing, maintaining, and improving production scripts which automate processes and analyses related to NGS.

• Support the publication of WGS and varied data types to the ATCC Genome Portal by continuous development of routine data management and processing to ensure timely processing and adhering to defined quality assurance criteria.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support research and development projects supporting experimental design and data interpretation. Utilize data visualization methods to effectively communicate complex biological data insights.

• Work within departmental code style guidelines while also contributing to their evolution and participate in regularly scheduled code reviews to ensure code quality.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's degree and 2-5 years' experience or equivalent experience.

• Master’s degree 0-3 years of relevant experience.

• Degrees should be in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Science, or Computational Biology and similar fields.

• Experience with bioinformatics tools and databases such as BLAST, Ensembl, and UCSC Genome Browser.

• Familiarity with cloud computing platforms like AWS or Google Cloud for bioinformatics applications.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, R, or Perl.

• Ability to create various types of visualizations, including line plots, bar charts, histograms, scatter plots, and heat maps, to represent data trends, distributions, and correlations.

• Strong understanding of next-generation sequencing (NGS).

• Good interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred:

• Experience with tools and libraries such as RShiny, RMarkdown, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, and ggplot2 for creating interactive and static visualizations.

• Familiarity with Linux high-performance computing environments.

• Experience with machine learning techniques and their application to biological data.

Company:

ATCC global biological materials resource and standards organization. Founded in 1925, headquartered in Manassas, Virginia, USA, team size 501-1000 employees, currently Late Stage.