How do they match: Bioinformatics Technicians

  • Research Scientist
  • Scientific Informatics Analyst
  • Bioinformatics Research Technician
  • Museum Informatics Specialist

  • 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.

  • Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
  • Enter or retrieve information from structural databases, protein sequence motif databases, mutation databases, genomic databases or gene expression databases.
  • Maintain awareness of new and emerging computational methods and technologies.
  • Participate in the preparation of reports or scientific publications.
  • Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
  • Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.

  • Analyze operational or research data.
  • Develop computer or online applications.
  • Enter information into databases or software programs.
  • Prepare research or technical reports.
  • Search files, databases or reference materials to obtain needed information.