Senior Data Scientist - Computational Biology
Sr. Data Scientist, Computational Biology 1351672
Location: Cambridge MA (Remote)
Science: Small Molecule
Therapeutic Area: Rare Disease
Job Overview: The computational biologist will support rare disease programs with a focus on building, maintaining computational methodologies and performing the analysis of omics data from company and publicly available biological databases.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and perform innovative computational analysis of multimodal data and deliver practical insight to advance our programs.
- Build internal analytical capabilities for DNAseq, RNAseq, scRNAseq, and other omics data
- Support for the integration heterogenous phenotypic and genomic datasets produced by company and from public repositories.
- Perform analysis to
- leverage genotype phenotype data
- perform association studies and on complexes phenotype and genotype data
- extract and leverage clinical & demographic information (e.g: feature extraction)
Qualifications:
- PhD degree in computational biology, statistics, or related field; or a related master’s degree with at least 5 years of experience
- Demonstrated record of handling Next generation sequencing data.
- Experienced in statistical genomics: Bayesian inference, Meta-analysis and summary statistics, Heritability and mixed models, Mendelian randomization
- Experience with population-scale genetics analysis: GWAS, Relatedness and population structure
- Experience in conventional NGS analysis tools: BCFtools, VCFtools, PLINK, Regenie, GATK, bedtools, etc.
- Technical proficiency and experience in languages such are R, Python
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