INFO (2): Requirements for a bioinformatics job.....

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Biostatistics Assistant
Bioinformatics Scientist
Bioinformatics Specialist

Bioinformaticist (R&D)

Bioinformatics Specialist (Clinical Analyst)

Chemical Data Warehourse Technologist

Campus Cyberinfrastructure Engineer

Computational Biologist

Computational Chemist 

Computational Scientist

Data Scientist

Informatics Scientist

Genetic Counselor

Machine Learning Researcher

Medical Writer

Software Test Engineer 

WEB APPLICATION QUALITY ENGINEER

Software Engineer - Bioinformatics
Research Scientist - Protein Biochemist
Structural Biologist
Statistical Geneticist
Bioinformatics Analyst I
Bioinformatics Programmer II
Research Scientist
Technical Writer
Research Scientist I/II/III

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Phenotypic Data Analysis

 human genetics, statistics, bioinformatics databases, and computational tools in membrane protein analysis 
Studies of Gastrointestinal Pathogens
Public health and medical research applications

Medical Informatics

Experimental Medicine

Clinical Pharmacology

Modeling and Simulation

Setup and execute standard bioinformatics pipelines for comparative analysis of microbes, mobile genetic elements, and gene variation

Effectively communicate technical analysis and results

Translational Microbiology 

Metabolic Engineering

construction of transformation vectors, cloning, Southern blotting

analysis of next-generation sequence data 

Natural products drug discovery, biosynthesis, bioinformatics and synthesis of natural products

Proficient in bioinformatics tools for analysis and interpretation of sequencing-based clinical diagnostic tests

high throughput screening strategies 

application of various mutagenesis approaches

bioinformatic analysis to identify novel disease genes

develop and support analysis tools for drug sensitivity screens and next-gen sequencing data, maintain datasets, integrate tools 

Genetic Epidemiology 

Genomic data analysis, with a special emphasis on structural variation, sequence variation

Renewable Energy
Data integrity 
Biomarker discovery
Manipulate data and perform statistical analysis in collaboration with investigators for clinical, genetic, bioinformatics, epidemiological, and laboratory

Core requirements...........

#Masters in Bioinformatics or Computational Biology.

#Knowledge of molecular biology, genetics, metagenomics, cancer biology, population genetics, statistics, biostatistics, Genetics, Genomics,  Computer Science, bioinformatics,  data transformation, parametric and non parametric testing, detection, quantification, Biometric
 (depending on the company and job involved).

#Experience of handling NGS data from top sequencing facilities like Illumina, ThermoFisher... 

# Expertise/experience of Java, Python, Shell , JavaScript, CSS, PHP, .NETRuby, C++, C, C#, perl, SQL, SAS, R, MATLAB..

#Strong knowledge of bioinformatics software repositories, databases, links...

#Submit a cover letter outlining the relevance of their research experience and interests to the position description, statement of current work

Plus knowledge..........

#Big data frameworks like Hadoop, Mahout, MapReduce
#Agile, scrum technology

#Independent as well as team work skills

#Good writing and communication skill

#################Top hiring companies############

Ambry Genetics

GE Corporate

Illumina

Johnson and Johnson

Mayo Clinic

Pfizer

Sanford-burnham Medical Research Institute 

DNAnexus 
Department of Health and Welfare
Sequenom
Synthetic Genomics
Human Longevity, Inc.

DuPont  
Celemics
Neogenomics
ResearchDx

*There are numerous others