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Scientist, Bioinformatics

ZipRecruiter, Englewood, Colorado, us, 80151

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Overview We're hiring

Bioinformatics Scientists

with strong backgrounds in computational biology and data science. A deep understanding of both biology and machine learning is required. The position's goals are varied, but include using personalized biomarker discovery and integrative -omics to diagnose "hard-to-diagnose" diseases.

Responsibilities

Conduct complex bioinformatics analyses on large transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and lipidomic datasets from biofluids and cell lines

Engage in multi-omic integration under a personalized medicine paradigm

Discover personalized biomarkers to aid in unraveling complex and obscure phenotypes

Qualifications

An MS or PhD in a Biomedical Science as well as extensive experience with computational biology, bioinformatics and data science

Expertise in multi-omics integration, systems biology, network medicine, precision and personalized medicine

Expertise in perturbation analysis and pathway enrichment analysis (e.g., KEGG, Reactome, MSigDB)

Machine learning skills (e.g., LR, SVM, RF, XGBoost) and extensive experience with Bayesian/probabilistic modeling, network-based sample similarity algorithms and factorization methods, data cleaning (e.g., batch effect removal and imputation), and data transformation and visualization

A solid statistical foundation

Expertise programming machine learning and statistical pipelines, preferably in Python

GitHub repository showing your work, preferably linked to publications

Ideal additional experience

iOS app development

R programming

Linux environments

Outlier detection

Requirements

Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship

A can-do attitude and a friendly, easygoing personality

Position title and compensation are commensurate with experience.

Compensation The compensation ranges listed below are starting ranges.

Starting base salary range: $155,000/yr - $230,000/yr

Starting bonus range: $10,000/yr - $40,000/yr

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