Bioinformatician

Our client is a fast growing medical technology company revolutionising the point of care molecular diagnostics within the life science sector. They have a need for a Bioinformatician to join the team with a background in sequence-based bioinformatics to contribute on projects leading to the development of diagnostic assays and the platform.

Our client is based in Newcastle and offer hybrid working for those further away so long as you can make it to site a few days a week.

Responsibilities:

• The Bioinformatician will support in general tasks such as; software development, database maintenance and report generation
• Work with the group commercialisation program by working within the Assay Team to design assays for the Company's diagnostic platform
• Work within the Assay Team to deliver molecular diagnostic product pipeline
• Attend regular lab meetings
• Identify appropriate reference sources for sequences, for example public sources such as GISAID and NCBI databases
• Be familiar with NextGen sequencing and associated pipelines
• Collate and annotate reference sequences across multiple microorganisms
• Be confident using python and Jupyter Lab books as a working and application development environment along with GIT as a version control system
• Generate, record, manipulate, analyse and present complex data to line manager, colleagues, senior management and external partners
• Assist in report writing and generation of SOP's
• Maintain records, logs and or databases of analyses for regulatory reporting purposes
• Interrogate sequence data to design new diagnostic assays, applying assay team lead rules to shortlist targets for experimental testing
• Undertake inclusivity and exclusivity testing and analyse homology to confirm target suitability
• Undertake periodic review of existing assay designs to confirm ongoing suitability of the assay for VOC, VUI and variants being monitored
• Work on collaborative projects with external partners and be point of contact for bioinformatics
• Keep up to date with the literature on point of care diagnostics, assay design, infectious disease diagnostics and other relevant areas
• Work within the quality systems following GDP and ISO standards

Skills/Quals:

• Degree or equivalent in a relevant subject (ie bioinformatics, computer science or statistics)
• Relevant experience in bioinformatics
• Familiarity with sequencing data and standard bioinformatics tools
• Life sciences

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