Sr. Programmer Analytics/Bioinformatics

- Requisition no: 516390
- Work Type: Full Time
- Location: Campus|Medical Center
- School/Department: null
- Categories: Research (Lab and Non-Lab)
- Job Type: Officer of Administration
- Regular/Temporary: Regular
- Hours Per Week: 35
Position Summary
The Center for Infection and Immunity is seeking a Sr. Programmer Analyst in Bioinformatics for developing pipelines to analyze large-scale gene expression datasets. The successful applicant will join a dynamic laboratory consisting of approximately 50 personnel at Columbia University and a global network of researchers that work on projects related to infectious disease surveillance and discovery in humans and wildlife, host response to infections, microbiome research, and large-scale studies on autism and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis.
The candidate is expected to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Advanced knowledge of bioinformatics, statistics, systems biology, including biological pathway and network analysis, with working knowledge of writing pipelines for analysis of gene expression data from Illumina sequencing platform.
- Thorough knowledge of NGS experimental design, data quality control, mapping software such as Bowtie, BWA or STAR, normalization and clustering methods, Tuxedo Suite tools such as Tophat and Cufflinks, Gene Set Enrichment Analysis, Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, and UCSC genome browser
- Experience with genome annotations from major bioinformatics resources (NCBI, UCSC).
- Ability to work in Unix environments consisting of high-performance clusters.
- Advanced understanding of multi-threading tools (SGE, MPI), resource management, and allocation.
- Broad knowledge scripting languages, such as Shell, Python, Perl, and R in an academic or industrial environment. Proficiency in R and Bioconductor packages is desirable.
Responsibilities
Provide bioinformatics support for RNA-Seq analysis in a large and dynamic laboratory - 50%
Provide support for projects related to microbial detection and discovery - 30%
Manage databases - 10%
Contribute to publications and research grants - 5%
Perform other related duties as assigned - 5%
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education and 4 years experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's or Ph.D. degree in epidemiology, biostatistics, public health, or a relevant field of study would substitute for experience
- Advanced knowledge of bioinformatics, statistics, systems biology, including biological pathway and network analysis, with working knowledge of writing pipelines for analysis of gene expression data from Illumina sequencing platform. Proficiency in R and Bioconductor packages is desirable.
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