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🧭 Full-Time
💸 $125,000 - $145,000 per year
🔍 Biomedical and bioinformatics
🏢 Company: NIH-NCBI
- The ideal candidate must have a doctoral degree and postdoctoral experience.
- A track record of research or work in viral genomics and bioinformatics.
- Familiarity with virus taxonomy, comparative genomics, and evolutionary processes.
- Experience in bioinformatics of DNA and RNA sequence analysis and the development of robust workflows for automated data processing.
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python).
- Experience with SQL.
- Ability to work with common structured documents (XML, JSON, CSV).
- Familiarity with NCBI resources and tools.
- Experience in interpreting complex biological problems and critically analyzing the scientific literature.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, organizational skills, and problem-solving skills.
- A proven ability to successfully engage in multi-disciplinary collaborative research.
- Collecting, processing, and analyzing biological datasets to support public virus resources.
- Developing methodologies and tools for the identification and classification of viral sequences based upon genomic and protein sequence content.
- Improving sequence data quality and annotation based on bioinformatic analysis, appropriate scientific literature, and through direct communication with scientists.
- Outreach to research scientists, data scientists, and clinicians.
- Interacting and collaborating with a diverse group of scientists, bioinformaticians, and software developers within and outside the NIH to meet the needs of clinical and basic researchers and public health professionals.
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