- Hands on experience analyzing data within a research environment
- Experience developing automated pipelines
- Understand how to productionize tools or software
- Background in Biomedical / Life Science Industry
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- More advance math skills - Implementing new statistics (using math to work with data in new ways)
- Hematology and oncology research background
- PhD Degree
Job Description
One of Insight Global's top clients within the biotechnology industry is looking for a computational scientist to sit on site once a week in Terrytown, NY. This person will be supporting hematology and oncology research within their genetics center. The computational scientist will be responsible for building automation and pipelines for semantic variant classification and analyses. They will apply new software and algorithms to create a process of identifying and categorizing somatic mutations based on their characteristics and potential impact. Doing so will allow the team to optimize current datasets and increase analytical capacity. Additional responsibilities include :
- Developing version controlled code bases implementing algorithms for somatic calling from population scale genetic data
- Leveraging previously generated in-house data assets to test which data types work best - using this to optimize algorithms and genetic data call sets
- Developing new genetic phenotypes and datasets without having to perform additional sequencing or generate new experimental data
- Returning results to translational and clinical colleagues that address biomedical requests and questions of interest
- Improving reproducibility, scalability, and applicability across datasets
- Reducing turn-around time to support multiple translation and clinical projects and requests