Genomics Data Scientist

  • Location

    London

  • Sector:

    Life Sciences

  • Salary:

    Negotiable

  • Contact:

    Jessica Charles

  • Contact email:

    Jessica.Charles@volt.eu.com

  • Job ref:

    78246-PHARM-JCH_1616688872

  • Published:

    about 3 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-05-24

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

  • Consultant:

    ConsultantDrop

We are looking for a Genome Data Scientist with experience of human genetics and rare disease, as well as processing and analysing whole genome data and development of algorithms. Strong understanding and knowledge of statistics and machine learning, with competence in both R and Python.
Opportunity to work with a leading organisation to investigate and develop solutions to extract a large quantity of genome data including alignment and variant calling to have an impact on patients lives.

Additional Requirements and Qualifications
·Bench-marking and fine-tuning tools for QC, processing and analysing whole genome sequence data
·Perform customer computational analysis for projects in rare disease and cancer
·Experience handling large data sets
·Developing, prototyping and validating new features for genome analysis
·PhD with experience of working within rare disease, cancer bioinformatics, computational biology or equivalent