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Stowers Institute for Medical Research · 11 hours ago

Bioinformatics Specialist

Kansas City, MO

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

Stowers Institute for Medical Research is seeking a Bioinformatics Specialist to assist their Computational Biology core facility with biological data processing and analysis. The role focuses on developing and maintaining analysis infrastructure to support diverse research programs, while collaborating with researchers on data analysis projects.

Association

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain robust, scalable pipelines for multiple sequencing platforms (Illumina, PacBio, Oxford Nanopore, etc.)

Troubleshoot and manually process data for custom protocols or pipeline failures

Collaborate with IT and high performance computing team to develop or optimize pipelines

Use R and Python for high-throughput genomic data analysis and visualization

Follow group best practices to maintain reproducibility and organize results

Qualification

BioinformaticsData analysisPythonRUnix/LinuxComputational pipelinesCommunication skillsProblem solvingAttention to detailProject management

Required

Undergraduate or Masters degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related computationally oriented discipline

Proficiency with one or more scripting languages (including Python)

Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment

Basic understanding and interest in Biology

Preferred

Experience with R, Bioconductor, Shiny, and Nextflow

Experience with cluster computing (Especially slurm)

Experience writing computational pipelines

Company

Stowers Institute for Medical Research

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research is a non-profit, basic biomedical research organization dedicated to improving human health by studying the fundamental processes of life.

Founded in 1994

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

501-1000 employees

http://www.stowers.org/

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