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Overview

AJANTA CONSULTING, LLC

Wright Patterson AFB, OH

THIS POSITION IS CONTINGENT UPON BID AWARD

The Bioinformatician will provide professional and technical support to the United States Air Force School of Medicine’s (USAFSAM) and the Airman Systems Directorate (RH).

Responsibilities

• Assist in the sequence analysis of respiratory pathogen data and/or other pathogens of operational significance. Gather and interpret sequencing data.
• Use a wide array of computational languages in Linux/Unix, and cloud computing environments to implement bioinformatics software pipelines to manage and analyze next generation sequence data.
• Compile sequencing data from public databases and/or curate datasets for submission to public databases.
• Generate and curate analytical pipelines using versioning software such as Git.
• Maintain code repositories and perform maintenance on repositories by submitting and responding to issue and enhancement requests from USAFSAM investigators.
• Annotate code to effectively convey processes and reproducibility.
• Assist in the Government’s development and evaluation of novel, cutting-edge diagnostic tools for the detection and characterization of respiratory viruses and other emerging pathogens.
• Collect, assemble, analyze and interpret large datasets of genomic sequence data using existing bioinformatics software and database systems for surveillance and/or research purposes, and evaluate the entire data collection process to assure data integrity.
• Research and stay abreast of cutting-edge next-generation sequencing and molecular analytic techniques.
• Consult with programmers and end-users concerning the outline of data requirements.
• Perform data archive procedures within established guidelines.
• Participate in publishing findings as necessary.
• Complete ad hoc data projects as assigned.
• Abide by all Federal, State and USAFSAM directives concerning the confidentiality of patient records, as embodied in federal statutes including the Privacy Act of 1974 and Health Information Portability Accountability ACT.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Biological Sciences, Public Health, Biocomputing, or similar field.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong skills and experience with scripting, data visualization, data management, programming, and analysis tools (e.g., Linux/Unix, Python, Perl, Tableau, MS Excel, and R/R Studio).
• Expert knowledge of bioinformatics software for traditional sequence analysis, next-generation sequence assembly and analysis, and/or gene expression studies with the knowledge of the applicable scientific procedures and techniques to generate these data sets.
• Familiarity with network and server administration to develop and support the flow and storage of datasets and code.
• Experience with developing basic data collection tools, data dictionaries and minimum data elements Preferred.
• Experience in workflow languages and containerization computing (i.e. Nextflow, Snakemake, Docker, Conda).

Physical Demands (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.