• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Regular
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• Hours Per Week: 20
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• Salary Range: $35,000 - $35,000

Position Summary

The Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center is seeking to hire a part-time Bioinformatics Analyst to work in Dr. Yufeng Shen’s lab. The Bioinformatics Analyst will participate in analysis of large-scale genomic data in genetic studies of human conditions and diseases.

Responsibilities

• Participate in computational and statistical model development for predicting genetic effect of genomic variation.
• Participate in computational analysis of large-scale genomic data to identify risk variants and genes in human conditions and diseases, such as autism and neurodevelopmental disorders.
• Maintain and improve bioinformatics pipelines for genomic variants annotation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in education and experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science or Engineering
• At least one year of experience in projects with data science or machine learning as a core component
• Proficient in Python, git, and modern data science frameworks

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