This position will work primarily with scientists and computational experts using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, such as RNA-sequencing, miRNA-sequencing, and Methylation arrays. This position focuses on applied bioinformatics skills in transcriptional profiling and epigenetic analyses in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia.

Responsibilities

Specific Responsibilities Include

• Process diverse NGS datasets prior to analysis.
• Implement standard data quality, formatting and annotation processes.
• Data management and organization for large “omics” datasets ( > 1000 samples).
• Visualization of “omics” data.
• Contribution to on-going research projects, including statistical and bioinformatics support for clinical research fellows, and molecular biologists.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Enrollment in an accredited graduate degree program.
• Ability to commit to a 9-month, full-time position.
• Programming skills in R.
• Programming skills in Python.
• Experience with computing in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Experience with high performance computing clusters (HPC) and job scheduling systems (SLURM, Torque, etc).

Additional Skills/Preferences

• Strong verbal, written, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team.
• Coursework in molecular biology, algorithms, and statistics.