Bioinformatician - Pathogen

Tasks

• Analyze whole genome sequencing and metagenomic data
• Collaborate with team for continuous improvement
• Conduct taxonomic classification
• Develop reproducible bioinformatics scripts and pipelines
• Develop reproducible bioinformatics workflows
• Identify and account for contamination mixed organisms and host background
• Interpret sequencing datasets and assess analytical suitability
• Perform quality control and assembly
• Perform variant analysis and strain characterization
• Predict antimicrobial resistance
• Share expertise and review code
• Stay current with infectious disease genomics and metagenomic analysis improvements

Perks/Benefits

• Electric car scheme
• Enhanced holiday pay
• Hospital Cash Plan
• Income protection
• Life assurance
• Pension
• Private medical insurance
• Therapy Services
• Travel allowance

Skills/Tech-stack

AWS | Antimicrobial Resistance | Bash | Cloud Computing | Containerization | Contamination detection | Data Visualization | Docker | GCP | Genome Sequencing | Genome assembly | Git | High Performance | High-Performance Computing | Illumina | Machine Learning | Metagenomics | Nextflow | OCI | Oxford Nanopore | Performance Computing | Python | Quality Control | R | Slurm | Statistical Analysis | Strain Typing | Taxonomic classification | Variant analysis | Version control | Whole-genome sequencing | Workflow Management