The Boyle Lab in the Gilbert S. Omenn Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics is seeking a Bioinformatician-Computational Biologist Intermediate continue our efforts for SMaHT and our nanopore-R01 where they will develop key methods and analysis tools for our commitment to this project. They will perform data analysis associated with Cas9 enrichment sequencing projects. They will also work to develop our high-throughput screening tool for short tandem repeats in human samples. 

Responsibilities include collaborative design, validation, and use of novel analysis approaches to interpret bioinformatics/clinical and/or 'omics data and review/revise/recommend approaches to experimental design and analysis. Actively review literature and evaluate tools to identify and validate emerging methods and approaches. Establish/maintain/extend best practices for reproducible bioinformatics analysis and general-use data pipelines.

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Minimum of a Bachelor degree in a recognized field of science or learning which is directly related to the duties of the position.

The applicant should have (or be near completion of) a Ph.D. in a computational or biological field and a track record of published research commensurate with their field. The applicant should have strong computational skills and proficiency in programming (ideally C/C++, Java, perl, python, or R). The successful candidate will have excellent organization and communication skills, collaborative spirit and strong personal motivation. Evidence of scholarly productivity in the form of journal articles, conference proceedings, and/or conference presentations is mandatory. English language proficiency is required.

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