Bioinformatics Scientist

Position Information:

Provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of the National Institute on Aging. The primary objective is to provide services and deliverables through performance of support services.

Additional Qualifications:

Certifications & Licenses

• Master’s degree in science related field

Field of Study

• Biology

Software

• MS office suite

Skills

• Strong communications skills, both oral and written

Deliverables:

• Clean Equipment - Ad-Hoc

• Run Validation - Ad-Hoc

• Inspect Equipment - Ad-Hoc

• Meet with lab members to present updates - Ad-Hoc

Statement of Work Details:

• Provide programming, data processing, and troubleshooting support for human population-based studies involving omics, clinical, phenotype, and wearable/sensor data. - 1
• Perform computational analyses using established bioinformatics and statistical methods for multi-omics and wearable datasets and integrate them into epidemiologic research. - 2
• Process raw data, including quality control, alignment, quantification, normalization, and generation of analysis-ready datasets. - 3
• Provide large-scale genome-wide DNA and protein sequence analysis. - 4
• Assist with development and maintenance of Oracle database for genomics and proteomics projects in the Translational Gerontology Branch TGB. - 5
• Provides programming and troubleshooting support to the Federal Government in the dissemination of research data.

• Assist with integration of laboratory-generated data with public and controlled-access datasets for downstream analysis and interpretation.

• Performs computations on research data analysis.

• Support development, execution, testing, and documentation of reproducible analysis pipelines and workflows.

• Works with staff on scientific programming and experimental design.

• Collaborate with laboratory staff and trainees on study planning, data analysis, result interpretation, and troubleshooting for internal and collaborative projects.

• Records observations and report results at weekly laboratory meetings.

• Prepare reports, tables, figures, slides, and written summaries of analytical results for laboratory meetings, progress reports, and scientific presentations.

• Maintain clear documentation of methods, analyses, and results in laboratory records and shared project resources.

• Contribute computational support to manuscripts, presentations, and other scientific products.

• Provides statistical support / analysis on research data.

• Analyze multi-omics, wearable and other longitudinal signal/-omics data using standard computational and statistical approaches.

• Maintain and organize omics data, metadata, analysis files, and related records for different projects, including data tracking, harmonization, documentation, backup, and controlled sharing.

• Help maintain laboratory databases, software tools, and computing resources used for bioinformatics analyses.

• Assist with development and maintenance of web tolls and web sites.

• Set up and maintain computer resources and networks of the Laboratory.

• Provide customer service by responding to questions about the LG web resources fromresearchers inside and outside the LG.

• Contribute to the publication of scientific reports.

• Provide computational support for members of the Laboratory.

• Maintain the computer and network system of the Laboratory.