Bioinformatics Programmer I
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Job posting number: #7108167 (Ref:12633-en_US)
Posted: August 16, 2022
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Summary
We are hiring a bioinformatics programmer with a special focus on image data analysis in the Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine. The Breast Center is a collaborative environment dedicated to breast health and disease research, as well as prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of different forms of breast cancer. We are looking for a candidate with a background in computational biology/bioinformatics and a focus on image analysis.
The prospective will be working in a new laboratory headed by a computational biology principal investigator recently funded by CPRIT. The laboratory is interested in integrating pathology imaging data and spatial genomics data to better understand the contribution of spatial multi-cellular environments to cancer formation and progression, and to understand the biological and clinical relevance of various morphological image features extracted from cell images.
Job Duties
- Evaluate existing bioinformatic tools.
- Develop new bioinformatics pipelines for image data analysis and integration.
- Summarize research findings using sound statistics and informative plots/figures.
- Present results in lab meetings and to collaborators.
- Collaborate with investigators in the breast center.
- Download data from repositories for public data integration, interrogation, and hypothesis generation.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Biological Science, or a related field.
- No experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Candidate should have good communication and written skills and good interpersonal skill. In addition, the candidate should be comfortable working with large-scale datasets (single cell and imaging data), and working in the high-performance computing (HPC) environment.
- Must be a team player and work well within a group.
- ImageJ, FIJI for image viewing and basic manipulation.
- Cell segmentation tools that work on imaging mass cytometry (IMC), H&E staining, and RNA FISH data.
- Previous experience analyzing multiplexed single-molecule RNA-FISH data is a plus.
- Image alignment and registration.
- Python libraries and Matlab toolkit for image analysis.
- TIFF, OME-TIFF format for storing images, and metadata.
- Any prior experience working with cell images is a plus.
Baylor College of Medicine requires employees to be fully vaccinated -subject to approved exemptions-against vaccine-preventable diseases including, but not limited to, COVID-19 and influenza.
Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.
12633
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