Kelly Government Solutions is a strategic supplier and business partner to the federal government and its key suppliers. Through our partnership with the National Institutes of Health, Kelly Government Solutions offers administrative, IT, engineering, scientific, and healthcare professionals the opportunity to work with the leading medical research center in the world. We are seeking an individual to work as a Junior Bioinformatics Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.
This is a long-term contract position which offers:
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefit package
- Optional health, vision, and dental plans
- Vacation leave as well as paid federal holidays and 401K plan.
- Access to NIHs unparalleled resources and niche scientific initiatives
TASKS/SERVICES. The contractor shall:
(1) Support National Cancer Institute (NCI), Center for Cancer Research (CCR), Genetics Branch (GB) research by developing and automating bioinformatics pipelines for cutting-edge next-generation sequencing (NGS) and other types of Omics applications as part of the GB OMICS Facility.
(2) Develop scripts and integrate tools to perform NGS data analysis, e.g., GSEA analysis, TCR, neoantigen prediction, copy number analyses; visualization and analysis of RNAseq gene expression, fusion gene data, germline, somatic, methylation, ChipSeq, HiC, single cell RNAseq, single cell ATACseq, ChipSeq, HiC, HiChiP, and spatial transcriptomics data.
(3) Work closely with the GB OMICS Bioinformatics manager on experimental design, data processing, analysis, and scientific programming.
(4) Deploy and maintain the NGS bioinformatics pipelines in high performance computing (HPC) environments, such as the NIH Biowulf platform and the AWS cloud platform.
(5) Collaborate with Genetics Branch PIs, biologists, clinicians, PI team based computational staff, and OMICS facility staff to understand their experimental and technical goals and suggest statistical and bioinformatics solutions for biological and translational questions such as mechanisms of oncogenesis, drug target discovery, drug mechanism elucidation and patient stratification efforts
(6) Work with the GB OMICS bioinformatics team and the Oncogenomics team to maintain and improve comprehensive databases for the storage and visualization of large-scale heterogenous Omics data, such as the public release of the ClinOmics/Oncogenomics Database.
(7) Create generalizable code bases to improve and support development of pipelines for the analysis, interpretation and visualization of next-generation sequencing data
(8) Develop interactive shareable code solution using technologies like Jupyter KnitR for collaborators and actively maintain them in a centralized version controlled repository in GitHub
REQUIREMENTS. The contractor ideally would have:
(1) Masters degree or Ph.D. (preferred) in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Computer Sciences, or a related scientific discipline.
(2) Minimum of two (2) years of experience in bioinformatics, computational biology, or scientific programming.
(3) Experience in designing and creating bioinformatics pipelines using a workflow manager such as SnakeMake or NextFlow.
(4) Experience in cancer genomics research, epigenomics, other large-scale sequencing projects, and implementing online Omics databases preferred
(5) Fluent in at least one programming language, such as Python, R or C/C++, comfortable working in a Linux environment, and experience with version control tools such as Git or SVN.
(6) Experience in relational databases such as MySQL or Oracle, HPC cluster and/or Cloud environments, and web client-side programming preferred
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