Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.
<ul><li>Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.</li><li>Extend existing software programs, web-based interactive tools, or database queries as sequence management and analysis needs evolve.</li><li>Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.</li><li>Conduct quality analyses of data inputs and resulting analyses or predictions.</li><li>Develop or maintain applications that process biologically based data into searchable databases for purposes of analysis, calculation, or presentation.</li><li>Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.</li><li>Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.</li><li>Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.</li><li>Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.</li><li>Document all database changes, modifications, or problems.</li><li>Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.</li></ul>