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- Newcastle upon Tyne
Ansök senast: 2024-06-13
Bioinformatician
Looking for a dynamic role in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment?
We are seeking a Bioinformatician with a passion for taking on new challenges and responsibilities. As a Bioinformatician on the Assay Team, you'll play a critical role in developing point of care molecular diagnostic assays. With a strong background in sequence-based bioinformatics, you'll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on cutting-edge projects.
Role
The Bioinformatician is to support the VP R&D in general tasks such as; software development, database maintenance and report generation.
Working with the company commercialisation program by working within the Assay Team to design assays for the Company’s diagnostic platform.
Including;
Work within the Assay Team to deliver molecular diagnostic product pipeline.
Identify appropriate reference sources for sequences, for example public sources such as GISAID and NCBI databases.
Keep up to date with the literature on point of care diagnostics, assay design, infectious disease diagnostics and other relevant areas.
Interrogate sequence data to design new diagnostic assays, applying assay team lead rules to shortlist targets for experimental testing.
Be familiar with NGS and associated pipelines.
Collate and annotate reference sequences across multiple microorganisms.
Be confident using python and Jupyter Lab books as a working and application development environment along with GIT as a version control system.
Requirements include;
MSc degree or equivalent in a relevant subject
Relevant experience in bioinformatics with a strong knowledge of microbial genomics.
Familiarity with sequencing data (Sanger and NGS) and standard bioinformatics tools (alignment, variant calling, assembly etc.)
Experience in data manipulation and analysis of large genomic datasets.
Knowledge and competence in Python, Docker, Git, Linux, MySQL or similar software development tool.
Knowledge of nucleic acid amplification and detection chemistries.
Knowledge of statistics.
The company mission is to make transformative, quality diagnostic technologies accessible to everyone, so that diseases can be detected and treated earlier. Should you want to be part of it please get in touch.
Must have the right to work in the UK.
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