University of Alabama at Birmingham · 2 days ago
BIOINFORMATICIAN I
Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area
Full-time
Onsite
New Grad, Entry Level
$53K/yr - $85K/yrUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham is seeking a highly motivated Bioinformatician I to join their Cardiovascular Clinical and Translational Research Program. The successful candidate will contribute to research projects focused on cardiovascular genetics and multi-omics, working with large-scale genomic datasets to support innovative research and improve patient care.
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Responsibilities
Develop, optimize, and maintain bioinformatics pipelines for genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic data analysis
Perform quality control, preprocessing, and analysis of high-throughput sequencing data (e.g., WGS, WES, RNA-Seq, GWAS, epigenetic datasets)
Implement machine learning and statistical models for multi-omics data integration and biomarker discovery
Work with EHR and clinical datasets, integrating genomic and clinical data for risk stratification
Collaborate with statisticians, clinicians, and computational biologists to analyze and interpret complex biological datasets
Contribute to manuscripts, grants, and conference presentations, ensuring high scientific rigor and reproducibility
Maintain and document computational workflows, pipelines, and databases to ensure scalability and accessibility
Support and mentor junior bioinformatics staff, graduate students, and postdocs as needed
To perform data management, quality control, data processing, data analysis and other bioinformatics-related tasks on high-dimensional data in coordination with study investigators and other computing and bioinformatics staff in the assigned department
To determine applicable commonly-available, widely-accepted and well-understood bioinformatics tools and technologies
To stay abreast of recent literature and other new developments, incorporating into existing data analysis protocols and pipelines in support of high quality, reproducible research in any science discipline or disease
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics, Biostatistics, or related fields
Proficiency in Python, R, and Bash scripting for bioinformatics applications
Experience with NGS data analysis, machine learning models, and statistical genetics
Familiarity with cloud computing platforms (AWS, Terra, DNAnexus, Google Cloud)
Knowledge of genomic databases (dbSNP, gnomAD, GATK, PLINK, Seurat)
Company
University of Alabama at Birmingham
The University of Alabama at Birmingham is a public university in located in Birmingham, Alabama.
Founded in 1969
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$45.14MKey Investors
American Academy of Orthopaedic SurgeonsParkinson's FoundationNational Institutes of Health
2023-12-01Grant· $0.02M
2023-07-25Grant
2023-06-26Grant
Leadership Team
Martha Bidez
Professor and Director, Advanced Safety Engineering & Management
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