Job Description
Under the direction of the Department Administrative Manager and the Sequencing Center, the Junior Bioinformatician will provide analysis and computing support for cancer-related research including microarray and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data (genomic, transcriptomic, epigenomic, and proteomic) analysis.
Providence caregivers are not simply valued - they're invaluable. Join our team at John Wayne Cancer Institute and thrive in our culture of patient-focused, whole-person care built on understanding, commitment, and mutual respect. Your voice matters here, because we know that to inspire and retain the best people, we must empower them.
Required qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Biology, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related field.
- Experience in processing and managing raw data generated from:
- Expression, SNP, and DNA methylation microarrays.
- Whole-genome and targeted (exome and/or gene panel) sequencing.
- Transcriptomic (mRNA-seq and smRNA-seq) sequencing.
- Epigenomic (Methyl-seq and ChIP-seq) sequencing.
- Other Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) techniques.
- Experience with NGS data generated on Illumina sequencing instruments, including the HiSeq and MiSeq platforms.
- Experience using open source genomic analysis tools including SAMtools, Picard, GATK, BWA, MuTect, BEDtools, VCFtools, among others.
- Experience using open source tools for the annotation and interpretation of genomic variants, such as ANNOVAR, VEP, SnpEff, among others.
- Experience in transcriptome analysis, including differential expression analysis using DESeq2, edgeR, limma, or similar.
- Experience in and understanding of the organization and utilization of public databases such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO-NCBI), ENCODE project, ArrayExpress (EMBL-EBI) among others.
- Experience working with large-scale NGS data in high performance cluster computing environments.
- Experience in at least one of the following scripting languages: bash, Python, or Perl.
- Experience in statistical analyses using R/Bioconductor.
- Unix/Linux system administration experience.
- Experience in biostatistics and bioinformatics.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience using cloud computing platforms such as Amazon and/or Google.
- Experience using Cancer Genomics Cloud (CGC) resources.
Why Join Providence?
Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally, and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
About Us At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of "Know me, care for me, ease my way." Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we'll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
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