How do they match: Bioinformatics Technicians

  • Museum Informatics Specialist
  • Scientific Informatics Analyst

  • 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.

  • Analyze or manipulate bioinformatics data using software packages, statistical applications, or data mining techniques.
  • Confer with database users about project timelines and changes.
  • Confer with researchers, clinicians, or information technology staff to determine data needs and programming requirements and to provide assistance with database-related research activities.
  • Create data management or error-checking procedures and user manuals.
  • 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.
  • Train bioinformatics staff or researchers in the use of databases.
  • Write computer programs or scripts to be used in querying databases.

  • Enter information into databases or software programs.
  • Search files, databases or reference materials to obtain needed information.