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Broad Institute
Associate Computational Biologist - Genome Biology
Location: Cambridge,
Massachusetts
02142
Posted on:
10/28/2009 12:13:47 PM
Postion type:
Full time
Job Code:
137
Required Education:
Bachelor's Degree
Salary:
DESCRIPTION
JOB SUMMARY:
The Broad Institute seeks an ASSOCIATE COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGIST, under the Genome Biology Program (Genome Regulation sub-division), to support program staff in performing computational analysis of genome scale Epigenomic data. This is a unique opportunity to make key contributions in the development of the epigenomics initiative. Will develop and support data processing and analysis tools, maintain data sets and databases, integrate tools and databases into existing high-throughput pipelines, and facilitate the display of analysis results.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Duties will include performing timely data processing; supporting researchers in performing computational analysis of epigenomic data; transferring data to external collaborators and data repositories; working with researchers to define and implement analysis tools and algorithms; maintaining, supporting, and documenting shared tools, code base, and data sets; preparing results of data analysis for presentation in various contexts including group meetings, funding agency reports, and journal publications; interacting with computational biologists at the Broad's sequencing platform; and other tasks as requested. The research opportunities of this position will concentrate on, but are not limited to, developing and utilizing computational methods for finding patterns in epigenomic data to address questions in stem cell biology, epigenetic components of complex disease and human genome annotation, and in support of next-generation sequencing technology development.
The Broad Institute was launched to pioneer a new model of collaborative biomedical science that would transform medicine. To accomplish these goals, we have built an amazing team of talented Broadies who work together to realize this transformation.
We are always looking for new Broadies to join our team and help us tackle important problems at the cutting edge of science.
The Broad community includes professional scientists from many disciplines, administrative staff, and students. We seek to cultivate an interdisciplinary, goal-oriented work environment that unleashes scientific creativity and empowers our people to pursue ambitious and critical projects.
Our work transcends traditional academic boundaries, giving Broad employees and affiliates access to an unparalleled biomedical research community across the Harvard and MIT communities and beyond.
The Broad Institute is committed to providing its employees with a competitive compensation and benefits package. We recognize the need for our employees to have a balance between work and personal life. To that end, our benefit plans and options reflect our desire to promote an environment that supports the health, diversity, and general wellbeing of our employees.
All Broadies also have access to world-class research and state of the art technology and are fully supported in their professional development, pushing the envelope for further growth.
REQUIREMENTS:
- A bachelor's degree (advanced degree preferred) in a quantitative discipline (such as computer science, bioinformatics, physics - or in biology with a strong quantitative background).
- General Proficiency with computers and the ability to quickly master new computational tools are required.
- It is highly desirable that the candidate for this position be proficient with a programming language (such as Python), a scientific computational software (Matlab, R), and have some familiarity with web authoring tools (HTML) and common data formats (XML).
- Experience managing large-scale data sets desired.
- Excellent communication skills required.
- Must demonstrate outstanding personal initiative and the ability to work effectively as part of a team.
The Broad Institute is an equal opportunity employer.
If interested, please apply online at http://track.tmpservice.com/ApplyClick.aspx?id=835564-1919-920
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