Bioinformatics Specialist

The Stowers Institute for Medical Research has an opening for a Bioinformatics Specialist to assist the Computational Biology core facility with biological data processing and analysis. The Bioinformatics Specialist will use computational tools to process, transform, visualize, and analyze datasets primarily derived from high-throughput sequencing experiments. We are seeking an intellectually curious and motivated individual who will thrive in a collaborative, biology-driven team environment.

The primary focus of this position will be on developing and maintaining analysis infrastructure (pipelines, tools, and genome annotation resources) that support the institute’s diverse research programs. There will also be an opportunity to work directly with researchers on collaborative data analysis projects.

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable pipelines for multiple sequencing platforms (Illumina, Pac Bio, Oxford Nanopore, etc.)
• Troubleshoot and manually process data for custom protocols or pipeline failures.
• Collaborate with IT and high performance computing team to develop or optimize pipelines.
• Use R and Python for high-throughput genomic data analysis and visualization.
• Follow group best practices to maintain reproducibility and organize results.
• Undergraduate or Master's degree in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, or a related computationally oriented discipline.
• Proficiency with one or more scripting languages (including Python).
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment.
• Basic understanding and interest in Biology.

• Experience with R, Bioconductor, Shiny, and Nextflow.
• Experience with cluster computing (Especially SLURM).
• Experience writing computational pipelines.

To apply, please submit the requested documents to careers or to the Administration Department, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, 1000 E 50th Street, Kansas City, MO 64110.

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