Occupation information for Bioinformatics Technicians District Of Columbia

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Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.

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Currently Employed: 650

Projected Annual Job Openings: 70

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Typical education needed for entry: Bachelor's degree

Typical work experience needed for a job in this occupation: No work experience

Typical on-the-job training once you have a job in this occupation: No on-the-job training

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typical job duties
  • Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
  • Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.
  • Develop or apply data mining and machine learning algorithms.
  • Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
  • Design or implement web-based tools for querying large-scale biological databases.
  • Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.
  • Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
  • Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.
  • Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
  • Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
tools & technology
Tools:
  • Computer workstation
  • Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers
  • Desktop computers
  • High end computer servers
  • High throughput screening HTS systems in nucleic acid purification

Technology:
  • Analytical or scientific software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Development environment software
  • Enterprise application integration software
  • Object or component oriented development software
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