"Bioinformatics Technician"

Job Description - Part 1 - Duties and Tasks

Basic Job Description:

Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.

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Duties / Tasks Part 2
Activities Part 3
Skills Part 4
Abilities Part 5
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Job Duties and Tasks for: "Bioinformatics Technician"

1) Monitor database performance and perform any necessary maintenance, upgrades, or repairs.

2) Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.

3) Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.

4) Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.

5) Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.

6) Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.

7) Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.

8) Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.

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9) Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.

10) Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.

11) Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.

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12) Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.

13) Test new or updated software or tools and provide feedback to developers.

14) Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.

15) Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.

16) Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.

17) Confer with database users about project timelines and changes.

18) Package bioinformatics data for submission to public repositories.

19) Perform routine system administrative functions such as troubleshooting, back-ups, and upgrades.