Bioinformatics Scientist
The Fountain Group · Ridgefield, CT · Yesterday
On-siteOTHR$50.34/hrContract
Responsibilities
- Support oncology drug discovery and development efforts through computational and data-driven approaches.
- Analyze and integrate multi-modal omics datasets to generate meaningful biological insights.
- Develop and apply innovative bioinformatics approaches when standard analytical methods are not sufficient.
- Identify, process, and analyze publicly available and internally generated datasets using statistical and bioinformatics techniques.
- Collaborate with biologists and scientific teams to address research questions and advance drug discovery programs.
- Identify and apply emerging technologies in data science and bioinformatics.
- Stay current with scientific literature and emerging methodologies in computational biology and cancer research.
- Interpret, document, and present analytical results to biologists and scientific collaborators.
- Maintain high standards of scientific integrity, data quality, and reproducibility.
- Ensure FAIR data practices, clear documentation, and reproducible analytical workflows.
Qualifications
- PhD in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Biology, Biostatistics, Data Science, or a related field.
- Python and R programming experience for bioinformatics data analysis.
- Unix/Linux experience.
- Experience analyzing bulk and single-cell NGS data.
- High-performance computing (HPC) experience.
- Biological pathway analysis experience.
- Strong understanding of bioinformatics, computational biology, and statistical analysis.
- Oncology or immunology experience (Preferred).
- Experience with spatial transcriptomics, methylation, or liquid biopsy data analysis (Preferred).
- Experience with public oncology datasets such as TCGA, GTEx, Human Cell Atlas, CZ CELLxGENE, or Human Tumor Atlas Network (Preferred).