Job Purpose
We are hiring ‘Bioinformatics Analyst’ to further build and scale up our bioinformatics solutions. An ideal bioinformatics team member will be technically strong and motivated to work on complex analytical and algorithmic challenges involving Big Data in genomics.
Job Duties
- Understand complex research problems and design and implement bioinformatics solutions working with the team members
- Support impactful data analysis of high-throughput data generated for clinical diagnosis
- Understand industry standard pipelines, algorithms and tools to analyze NGS platforms; support improvements to existing bioinformatics tools
- Play an active role in managing bioinformatics analysis and report delivery for clinical and research samples, supported by well-defined SOP’s
- Hands-on bioinformatics problem solving on regular basis
- Reporting to: Associate Director, Location: MedGenome Bangalore office
Functional/Technical Skills
- 0-3 years of industry/academics research / analytics experience
- Sufficient knowledge of genomics and basics of molecular biology
- Good knowledge of programming languages for data analysis and tool development such as Perl, Php, Python, R, Java, Html, SQL, C++
- Strong analytical and computer skills
- Prior knowledge of statistical analysis and bioinformatics methods/tools/databases is a plus
- Hands on experience in Next-Generation sequencing data analysis is a plus
- Be a team player focusing on collaborative achievements
- Exposure to biotech / pharma, clinical organizations and genomics is a plus
Educational Qualification
- Master’s/Bachelor’s degree from reputed institute in the area of computer-science/informatics/Computational Genomics/Computation Biology/Bioinformatics is preferred
- PhD or a Master’s degree in biology