Bioinformatics Research Assistant

Tasks

• Benchmark variant calling tools
• Conduct literature reviews
• Document analyses and results
• Filter SNVs using databases and statistical tools
• Generate and interpret tool performance metrics
• Maintain reproducible analysis workflows
• Perform SNV calling
• Prepare statistical reports
• Process sequencing data
• Profile microbiome from sequencing data
• Quality control sequencing data
• Supervise undergraduate students

Perks/Benefits

• Guidance from principal investigator

Skills/Tech-stack

BAM sorting | Base quality score recalibration | Bash Scripting | Bioinformatics pipelines | Computational Genomics | Database querying | Duplicate marking | High Throughput | High-Throughput Sequencing | Indexing | LoFreq | Microbiome profiling | Mutect2 | Read trimming | Reproducible Research | SNV filtering | Score recalibration | Sequence Alignment | Single nucleotide variant calling | Snakemake | Statistical Analysis | Strelka | Variant benchmarking | Variant calling