Snabbfakta

    • London

Ansök senast: 2025-02-12

Bioinformatician - Genomics

Publicerad 2024-12-14

Job Description

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Genomics Bioinformatician to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience handling large-scale genomic datasets, developing and implementing bioinformatic pipelines, and leveraging the latest in open-source tools and methods to derive high-quality insights. You will play a key role in processing, analyzing, and interpreting complex sequencing data, with a particular focus on metagenomic and microbiome samples from diverse environments.


Key Responsibilities / Requirements:

  • Process and analyze genomic datasets, with hands-on experience managing hundreds to thousands of samples.
  • Familiarity with microbial or metagenomic samples (processing hundreds to thousands) and human genomic datasets (processing thousands to tens of thousands of samples).
  • Manage and manipulate raw data, beyond simply downloading public datasets.
  • Develop and implement strategies for tracking and maintaining metadata integrity at the raw data level, ensuring every datapoint is accounted for and properly processed.
  • Design, implement, and refine complex bioinformatics pipelines, leveraging modern workflow languages (such as Snakemake, Nextflow, or WDL).
  • Keep abreast of the latest open-source tools, continuously benchmarking and optimizing pipeline components to ensure efficiency and a...